Book Listings: Mountain Wilderness Writing
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$15.00Whose Water Is It?
It’s often said that we are mostly water and that we live on a watery planet. But though the globe is 7/8 water, only a small part is fresh, and less than one percent is available for all of humankind’s uses: drinking and cleaning; irritating crops; powering and cooling industry, along with countless other demands.
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$15.00Extreme Landscapes
Authors relate first-hand experiences in high-altitude archaeological sites in the Andes, remote hidden valleys of Tibet, the icy reaches of northern Greenland, the view from the sky in a cross-America paraglide flight, the wind-scoured fjords of Chilean Patagonia and the alpine meadows of Scotland's Cairn-gorn Mountains.
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$20.00Voices From The Summit
This large-format anthology showcases 32 important contemporary mountaineers—men and women from every continent, from teenagers to ninety somethings, from the venerable Sir Edmund Hillary to the eponymously named rock climber Lynn Hill.