About
Routes, refuges, and the silence above the snowline.
Mountain Ledger is an independent online magazine founded in 2025 to do one thing: long-form, careful reporting on the parts of life that move too slowly to make the daily wire feeds.
Mountain Ledger is a quarterly of alpine reporting — routes, huts and refuges, mountain towns, the history of climbing, snow science, and the people who guide.
The magazine is run by a small editorial collective, the Mountain Ledger Editorial Trust, constituted as a non-profit publisher. Decisions about coverage, accuracy, and editorial direction are taken independently of any commercial interest. We do not run display advertising.
We publish under five named contributors who together edit and write the magazine. You can read about each on the contributor pages. Pieces are commissioned, reported, edited, fact-checked, and published in roughly four-week cycles.
We hold ourselves to three standards. Our editorial policy, our style guide, our ethics statement.
Write to us at editor@mountain-ledgers.co.
The masthead
- AH
Anders Hoffmann is an IFMGA-certified mountain guide who left the trade in 2022 to edit a magazine about it. He still works summer routes in the Stubai.
- RT
Rinpo Tsering has guided in the Khumbu since 2002 and is one of the few non-Western voices regularly publishing on Himalayan route history.
- LM
Lucia Marengo grew up in the Aosta Valley and writes about the towns at the foot of the Mont Blanc massif from a flat above her family's bookshop.
- HS
Henrik Solberg is a snow scientist who worked at NVE before he came to Mountain Ledger. He edits the Snow section.
- CQ
Cora Quirke maps the Welsh hills for the Ordnance Survey on contract and edits the Cartography section of Mountain Ledger.