Wasburn, extraordinary adventures of a young mountaineer: among the Alps with Bradford, Bradford on Mount Washington, Bradford on Mount Fairweather/ by Bradford Washburn, Foreword by David Roberts.

Title:

Wasburn, extraordinary adventures of a young mountaineer: among the Alps with Bradford, Bradford on Mount Washington, Bradford on Mount Fairweather/ by Bradford Washburn, Foreword by David Roberts.

Author:

Washburn, Bradford, 1910-2007.

Call Number:

920 W314e

Publication Information:

Appalachisn Mountain Club Books, 2004.

Physical Description:

236 p.: illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Description:

Bradford Washburn is well known for his daring climbs of the world's highest peaks, his pioneering work in aerial photography and mountain cartography, and founding the internationally renown Boston Museum of Science. But his bold exploits started long before he first set eyes on Mckinley and the Yukon. As a teenager, Washburn climbed Mount Washington, home of the "worst weather in the world", in winter; scaled unclimbed peaks in the french Alps; and with a team of Harvard Mountaineers, made a second ascent of 15,500-foot Mount Fairweather, the highest peak in Alaska's coastal range.Now readers can learn about these extraordinary adventures in Washburn's own words in this colleciton of his early works: Among the Alps with Bradford, Bradford on Mount WAshington, and Bradford on Mount Fairweather. In each book, the teenage Washburn describes his adventures in vivid detail, including the shockingly simple techniques he and his climbing buddies relied upon to scale some of the world's most ferocious peaks int he 1920's.

Subjects:

Mountaineering. , Mount Washington, (N.H.)

People:

Washburn, Bradford , 1910-2007.

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Credit Line:

Gift of Bell's Books, collection of Andrew Griscom; October 2021;