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Stepping into the Syllabus: A Veteran Alpinist Sees the Himalaya Through the Eyes of College Students
Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History and author of Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering, is featured prominently in Pete Takeda’s Alpinist article “Stepping into the Syllabus: A Veteran Alpinist Sees the Himalaya Through the Eyes of College Students” (Issue 94, Summer 2026), about Isserman’s course History and Literature of Himalayan Mountaineering, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present.
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Stepping into the Syllabus: A Veteran Alpinist Sees the Himalaya Through the Eyes of College Students