Jack D. Ives passed away on September 15, 2024. He was a Canadian montologist, an honorary adjunct research professor of geography and environmental studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, an author, and a prominent advocate of mountain issues at the global level. From 1967 to 1979 Ives served as director of the
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, and
Professor of Geography from 1967 to 1989. While at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, Ives founded and edited two peer-reviewed quarterly journals.
first appeared in 1969. In 1980 Ives, along with Roger Barry, Misha Plam, and Walther Manshard, founded the (IMS).
