| Description |
ix, 421 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-421). |
| Contents |
"The range of light" -- William Brewer & Mount Brewer (July 1864) -- Clarence King & Mount Tyndall (July 1864) -- Clarence King & Mount Clark (July 1866) -- John Muir & Cathedral Peak (September 1869) -- John Muir & Mount Ritter (October 1872) -- Bolton Coit Brown & Mount Clarence King (August 1896) -- Joseph Nisbet LeConte & North Palisade (July 1903) -- James Hutchinson & Mount Humphreys (July 1904) -- Ernest Clayton Andrews & Mount Darwin (August 1908) -- James Hutchinson & Black Kaweah (August 1920) --Francis Farquhar & Middle Palisade (August 1921) -- Charles Michael & Michael Minaret (October 1923) -- Norman Clyde & Mount Russell (August 1926) -- Norman Clyde & Norman Clyde Peak (June 1930) -- Thunderbolt Peak : the end of the era (August 1931). |
| Summary |
A mountaineer explores the paths of his climbing forefathers through the Sierra Nevada mountains, in a book that both relates the history of mountaineers on the range from 1864 to 1931 and recounts the author's efforts to climb the Sierra Nevadas with the same lack of gear that a nineteenth-century climber had to contend with. |
| Subject |
Mountaineers -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Biography.
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Mountaineering -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History.
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| ISBN |
9781582435190: $29.95 |
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1582435197 |
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