Alaska Ascents
Subtitle: World-Class Mountaineers Tell Their Stories
Contributors: Fred Bockey (Foreword); Bill Sherwonit (Editor)
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
Published: August 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780882404790
Subjects: Mountain Climbing; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Essays; Cultural Region/Pacific Northwest; Geographic Orientation/Alaska; Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering; Sports & Recreation/Essays; Alaska; Description; Mountaineering
First sentence: On July 16, 1741, Danish explorer Vitus Bering and his St. Peter crew, on an expedition for Russian czar Peter the Great, spotted "high snow-covered mountains...among them a high volcano" on their northern horizon.