Published continuously since 1876, Appalachia is America’s longest-running journal of mountaineering and conservation. Each issue delivers inspired writing on mountain exploration, ecology, and conservation; news about international mountaineering expeditions; analysis of northeastern mountaineering accidents; poems by leading poets; and much more. The print journal appears twice a year, on June 15 (Summer/Fall) and December 15 (Winter/Spring).
For inquiries about getting or writing for Appalachia, contact Editor-in-Chief Christine Woodside at christine.woodside@gmail.com.
Current Issue: Volume 75, Number 2 (2024) Summer/Fall 2024: Dark Places
Complete Issue
Editor's Column
In This Issue
Why the World Needs the Night: A Visit to the Appalachian Mountain Club's International Dark Sky Park
Laura Poppick
Moths to a Flame: The Light and Dark of Reading Accidents in North American Mountaineering
Leath Tonino
In Every Issue
Skyline Sketches: The Yellow Lily
Gregory L. Norris
Skyline Sketches: The Last Backpack
Gordon DuBois
Research: Gorillas on Visoke and Pandas in the House: A Conservation with Wildlife Biologist and Conservationist George Schaller
Douglass Teschner
Old Hutmen and Hutwomen Honor Betsy Byrd
W. Kent Olson
A Peak Ahead: The Humanity of Machines
Christine Woodside
Poetry
Early Spring at the Pond
Ann Taylor
Sundown on Evolution Creek: High Sierras
Marcyn Del Clements
Entering the Kingdom
Todd Davis
For a Moment
Chris Hoffman
Photo by Aleks Petakov/AMC Photo Contest. Stars hang above AMC's Galehead Hut between South Twin Mountain and Galehead Mountain in New Hampshire's White Mountains.