Author Bio

Sarah Boon

Sarah Boon, PhD, is a freelance writer and editor whose book reviews and essays have been published in Aeon, The Times Literary Supplement, Nature, Science and other outlets. Her book, Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist, is coming out in June of 2025 with University of Alberta Press. She lives on southern Vancouver Island with her husband and dog. REI Member since 2024.

Stories by Sarah Boon...

A landscape shot of Hilda Glacier in the Canadian Rockies

The Beast in Me: How Mental Illness Changed My Outdoor Life—and What I Did About It

Sarah Boon|March 7, 2025

In September 2022, I stood on a pile of rocks that marked the once-grand reach of Hilda Glacier in the Canadian Rockies. Now the glacier was no more than a smal...