Cloud Walkers: Six Climbs on Major Canadian Peaks

Type

Book

Authors

PADDY SHERMAN

ISBN 10

0916890791

ISBN 13

9780916890797

Tags

Mountains -- Northwest, Canadian, Mountains -- Yukon, Mountains -- British Columbia, Mountains -- Alaska, Mountaineering, Mountaineering -- British Columbia, Mountaineering -- Yukon, Alpinisme -- Colombie-Britannique, Alpinisme -- Yukon, Alpinisme -- Alaska, Mountains, Alaska, British Columbia, Canada -- Canadian Northwest, Yukon

Description

The heroes of Paddy Sherman's book are the high mountains that challenge man -- awesomely beautiful, but with a thousand dangers for climbers and unwary aircraft pilots. His stories of the Canadian Peaks and of Alaska's Mount Fairweather have the drama of news-reporting in style and excitement. These are the accounts of ventures into the clouds, and above the clouds, by men and women who used ropes and pitons to defy all the forces of nature. The tragedy of the North Star air liner CF-TFD, which vanished in December 1956 with a loss of sixty-two lives, is given particular point by the author's active part in the locating of the wreckage on the slopes of Mount Slesse, in the Coast Range of British Columbia.

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