num_pages: 320
description: This memoir and autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn is a great story and was completed before his death in 2007. He was one of the last  great explorers and adventureers of the twentieth century. Drawing from decades of memories, journals, and an exquisite photographic collection, Washburn completes the self-portrait of a man drawn to altitude, from his first great climb of Mount Washington at age eleven, through numerous first ascents of peaks all over the world.
language: English
title: Bradford Washburn: An Extraordinary Life: The Autobiography of a Mountaineering Icon
titlecomplete: Bradford Washburn: An Extraordinary Life: The Autobiography of a Mountaineering Icon
genres: Biography, Adventure, Mountaineering, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 27
publisher: WestWinds Press