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.
| ISBN: | 9780295742793 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2018 |
| Author: | David Stevenson |
| Publisher: | University of Washington Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Climbing and mountaineering Mountains and uplands Memoirs The Earth: natural history: general interest |
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.
Warnings Against Myself features in the following genres: Climbing and mountaineering, Mountains and uplands, Memoirs, The Earth: natural history: general interest
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Warnings Against Myself was written by David Stevenson and published by University of Washington Press
Warnings Against Myself has 256 pages
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