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Warnings Against Myself: Meditations on a Life in Climbing

By David Stevenson

Book information

Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780295806556, 9780295995533
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
10 MB (10531468 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-01-23 22:01:15
Biography & Autobiography; Nature; Sports & Recrea

Description

From his youthful second ascent of the north ridge of Mount Kennedy in the Yukon�s 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 conceived under the influence of rain and whiskey, David Stevenson chronicles several decades of a life unified by a preoccupation with climbing. Reflective and literary, and also entertaining and funny, his accounts move across the great climbing locations of the western United States, with forays into the spires of the Alps, and slip freely in time from the author�s childhood, when he could not wait to head west, to his adulthood, with a wife and two sons, in which he still feels compelled by a longing to be on the heights.

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