Icefall

This finalist for the Aurealis Award for Best SF Novella is a story of obsession and how it can lead people to make choices which destroy them - but it's also a story of strange mysteries, and learning to cope with traumatic physical and psychological injury.

Although this story takes place hundreds, if not thousands, of years from now, when planets all over the galaxy have been terraformed and colonized and the geography of the Earth has long been destroyed, it contains numerous references to 20th-century people, countries, ethnicities, and geographical features, which is incongruous enough to impair suspension of disbelief. Nevertheless, it's an interesting story steeped in mountain-climbing lore and technical details, with some intriguing futuristic technology.