One of the focuses of this book is the examination of the archaeological record of the peoples who once occupied the Southwestern United States. Around 1300 AD the Fremont people seemingly disappeared from the region and the reasons for this have never fully been explained. David Roberts is a climbe...
If you are Ed Viesturs's mom, look away now. You may not want to read this...I love reading travel and adventure memoirs. Reading about places that I may never get to visit, dangers I may never get to experience, and people I may never get to meet makes me feel a little more well-rounded. I have ...
Wonderfully detailed, whimsical illustrations are the highlight in this story about a passionate, persistent young inventor of remarkable contraptions.
Lord Edward Corinth is travelling to his brother's castle to attend a dinner and is running late when he has a car accident. Verity Browne gives him as lift as she's travelling the same direction. Little does he know that she's travelling to the castle to expose the corrupt decadent upper class fo...
Viesturs is one of the premier mountaineers of America. The first American to climb all 14 8000 meter mountains in the world & the sixth to do so without supplemental oxygen. Chronicles his climbing adventures and personal life, most of which is intertwined.
It's bad enough to want to get really cold in the summer, but to do it in the winter buggars rational thought. These idiots decided to climb Mt. McKinley in the dead of winter. Art Davidson was disappointed as a child when he learned that all the continents had been discovered. It's no wonder then ...
The Last of his Kind is an eminently readable bio of a remarkable character. Not only was Bradford Washington arguably the greatest mountaineer of his age, a man who bagged more than a fistful of firsts and who revolutionized climbing techniques, he was an accomplished nature photographer, whose wor...
If you know someone who's thinking about taking up mountain climbing, give him/her a copy of this book. Equal parts adventure story and cautionary tale, this book relates the author's harrowing stories of survival on some of the highest peaks on the planet. The difference between Viesturs' story a...
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