Warnings against Myself

David Stevenson is the director of the Creative Writing and Literary Arts Department at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is the author of the short fiction collection Letters from Chamonix, winner of the Banff Mountain Festival Fiction Prize.

Introduction

Warnings against Myself

1. Speaking in Code: Conversations and Reflections on Climbing, Language, and the Religion of the French

2. The Purposes of Ascent: Episodes and Conversations on Adventure, Climbing, and What It All Might Mean; An Account of Twenty Years in the West

3. Climber as Writer: From the Armchair to the Tetons Last Dance of the Wu Li Master: A Distanced Appreciation of Terrance “Mugs” Stump Virga

4. Untethered in Yosemite: A Report from Paradise in the Last Summer of the Millennium

5. Short Walks with McInerney: Three Classic Pilgrimages

6. Superstitious: Mont Blanc, French Alps

7. Struck: Longs Peak, Rocky Mountains

8. In the Bugs: In the Canadian Rockies

9. Axe of Contrition

10. Byron Glacier, June 24, 2009

11. Eros on the Heights

12. The Tower and the Riddle

13. Lives of the Volcano Poets

14. Here Comes Ol’ Flattop

15. A Short Cultural History of the Ice Axe in the Twentieth Century

16. Three Dreams of Mountains, Late Fall 2004

17. Whillans, Haston, and Me: A Distanced Appreciation with a Couple Trip Reports, Contextualized

18. In the Very Big Ice House: Travels on the Harding Icefield

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments