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Warnings against myself : meditations on a life in climbing /
"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-...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2016]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; WARNINGS AGAINST MYSELF; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Warnings against Myself; Speaking in Code: Conversations and Reflections on Climbing, Language, and the Religion of the French; The Purposes of Ascent: Episodes and Conversations on Adventure, Climbing, and What It All Might Mean; An Account of Twenty Years in the West; Climber as Writer: From the Armchair to the Tetons; Last Dance of the Wu Li Master: A Distanced Appreciation of Terrance "Mugs" Stump; Virga; Untethered in Yosemite: A Report from Paradise in the Last Summer of the Millennium.
- Short Walks with McInerney: Three Classic PilgrimagesSuperstitious: Mont Blanc, French Alps; Struck: Longs Peak, Rocky Mountains; In the Bugs: In the Canadian Rockies; Axe of Contrition; Byron Glacier, June 24, 2009; Eros on the Heights; The Tower and the Riddle; Lives of the Volcano Poets; Here Comes Ol' Flattop; A Short Cultural History of the Ice Axe in the Twentieth Century; Three Dreams of Mountains, Late Fall 2004; Whillans, Haston, and Me: A Distanced Appreciation with a Couple Trip Reports, Contextualized; In the Very Big Ice House: Travels on the Harding Icefield.