num_pages: 200
description: Personal essays detailing noteworthy climbing sites throughout the western United States infused with a few terrifying excursions to the Alps and a trip to the Bugaboos of western Canada Warnings Against Myself opens up the beautiful obsessive world of mountain climbing to climbers and non-climbers alike.From his youthful second ascent of the north ridge of Mount Kennedy in the Yukons Saint Elias Range an in-and-out on skis for which he had not entirely learned how to ski to a recent excursion across the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska conceived under the influence of rain and whiskey David Stevenson chronicles several decades of a life unified by a preoccupation with climbing.Stevenson describes climbing first-hand but also reflects on climbing in a beautiful way that draws in both literary references and engaging characterizations of well-known climbers. His changing viewpoint on his dangerous obsession as he ages marries and has children (and then takes his son climbing) give the book a strong shape and the work as a whole adds a new and thoughtful perspective to the literature of climbing.
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title: Warnings Against Myself: Meditations on a Life in Climbing
publisher: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books