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).
Current Issue: Volume 72, Number 2 (2021) Appalachia Summer/Fall 2021
Complete Issue
Editor's Column
The Long Way Home: Mr. Fletcher
Christine Woodside
In This Issue
The Edge: A Young Mother and Her Dog Face Up to a Ledge
Amanda K. Jaros
In Every Issue
A Peak Ahead: Taconic and Catskills Cataclysms
Christine Woodside
Poetry
Quechee Gorge
Francis Blessington
Amelia's Detour
Polly Brown
Sayat-Sayat Checkpoint, Kinabalu National Park, Borneo
Marcyn Del Clements
From Letters to Thoreau
Ben Corvo
The Book of Miracles
Todd Davis
The Bird Islands Off Englishtown, Nova Scotia
Stephanie Kraft
Photo by Lisa Ballard: The sky presses low and heavy over Avalanche Lake, in New York's Adirondacks. To reach the trailless Mount Marshall and many other peaks, one must skirt the edge on wooden footbridges attached to rock walls.
