No limits but the sky
Subtitle: the best mountaineering stories from Appalachia journal
By: edited by Christine Woodside
Publisher: Appalachian Mountain Club Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston, Massachusetts
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781628420210
Subjects: Mountaineering; Anecdotes; Mountaineers; Biography; Mountaineering expeditions; SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues; TRAVEL / United States / Northeast / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Other titles: Appalachia (Appalachian Mountain Club : 1876)
Description: "This anthology collects the most riveting, real-life adventure stories from America's oldest mountaineering and conservation journal, Appalachia. Each of these essays, published from 1877 to the present, chronicles a tale of explorers who push the limits--of endurance, weather, altitude, or personal achievement. Some of these explorers make history, such as the first American climber to ascend Kilimanjaro in 1932; others, such as the leader of an 1895 team attempting a first ascent of Canada's Mount Lefroy, never return. Freak accidents, legendary perseverance, and singularly colorful personalities and climbing luminaries such as Bradford Washburn, Elizabeth Knowlton, and Fritz Wiessner all figure into this fascinating, illustrated"--
Table of contents: title: A Climb Through Tuckerman Ravine / M. F. Whitman, 1877; title: A Climb on Mount Adams in Winter / Samuel H. Scudder, 1884; title: The First Ascent of a Glacier in Colorado / F.H. Chapin, 1887; title: The Casualty on Mount Lefroy / Charles E. Fay, 1896; title: A Winter Ascent of the Great Gulf (Mount Washington) / George N. Whipple, 1905; title: Snowbound in September / Robert Whitehill, 1917; title: Over Ice and Snow on the Equator : An Ascent of Kilimanjaro / Paul Simpson McElroy, 1932; title: The Attack on Crillon / Bradford Washburn, 1934; title: The Bietschhorn in a Thunderstorm / Elizabeth Knowlton, 1937; title: The K2 Expedition of 1939 / Fritz H. Wiessner, 1956; title: On Arizona's San Francisco Peaks / Dorothy May Gardner, 1944; title: Manless Ascent of Devils Tower / Jan Conn, 1952; title: Free Fall on the Dent Blanche / Philip D. Levin, 1964; title: Climbing the Four Thousand Footers in Winter / Miriam Underhill, 1967; title: Lost on Mount Crescent / Ruth Dadourian, 1976; title: Avalanche! / Robert D. Hall, Jr., 1978; title: Thelay Sagar : Paradise and Disillusionment / Jon Waterman, 1980; title: Like Hay in the Wind : Tragedy on Mount Washington / Christopher Hardiman, Ali Kashkooli, William Moss, Thomas Murri, Albie Pokrob, Douglass Teschner, and Michael Torrey, 1984; title: Paine and Suffering in Patagonia / Todd Swain, 1988; title: A Leg Up : One Person's Accident / Doug Mayer, 1990; title: Trailing Dreams : Magic Along the Appalachian Trail / Elizabeth McGowan, 1993; title: Remembering Rick / Michael Lanza, 1998; title: Japanese Caribou : Alone in the Alaska Range-in Winter / Masatoshi Kuriaki, 2009; title: Ice and Ashes : A Young Sled Driver Takes on a Moral Imperative / Blair Braverman, 2011; title: Frankenstein Cliff and the Black Dog / Christopher Johnson, 2013.