Huts & Refuges
The Finse Station as a Mountain House
Finse is the highest stop on the Bergen Line at 1,222 metres. The station and its adjacent DNT hut have functioned as a single mountain establishment for over a century.
Snow editor
Henrik Solberg
Henrik Solberg is a snow scientist who worked at NVE before he came to Mountain Ledger. He edits the Snow section.
Beats
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Guides
The Snow Decision, On a Tour Day in March
How an alpine guide on a routine ski tour in the Stubai made the snow call that turned the day around.
Huts & Refuges
A Warden Shortage in the High Tatras
Slovakia's mountain huts are full and short-staffed. A summer 2026 visit to Chata pri Zelenom plese and a conversation about the trade.
History
Minya Konka 1932: An American Expedition in Western Sichuan
A small American party climbed a 7,556-metre peak in Sichuan during a Chinese civil war and walked the trade route out to French Indochina. The climb is barely remembered.
Cartography
Norwegian Kartverket and the Jotunheimen Revision
How the Norwegian Mapping Authority is re-drawing the contour lines of the country's roof, one ridge at a time.
Snow
The Glaciologists of the Saint Elias
On an upper basin of the Kaskawulsh Glacier in Kluane National Park, a four-person research team spent twelve days in May measuring how fast a great mass of ice is changing.
Routes
The Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt in April: A Ski Traverse
A daily account of the classic ski mountaineering traverse from Chamonix to Zermatt, completed in seven days in mid-April under shifting spring conditions.
Rescues
A Cairngorm Winter Rescue in February 2024, Revisited
Two years on from the Coire an t-Sneachda call-out that took thirty-one hours and four teams, Mountain Ledger walks the line of the rescue with the deputy team leader of Cairngorm MRT.
Mountain Towns
Talkeetna, Alaska, in March Before Climbing Season
Six weeks before the first Denali expeditions arrive, the small town at the end of the spur road is busy with snow machines and quiet about what is coming. A report from the Roadhouse and the airstrip.
Snow
A Sierra Observer's Snowpit Notebook
Across fourteen winters of fieldwork above Mammoth Lakes, an independent observer named Caleb Yost has filled forty-two notebooks with snow profiles, instability tests, and what they meant.
Snow
A Winter of Avalanche Forecasting for the Wasatch
From the Utah Avalanche Center's Salt Lake office, four forecasters spent the 2025-26 season explaining a snowpack that refused to settle.