Title: Tales of a Western Mountaineer: A Record of Mountain Experiences on the Pacific Coast
Author: C. E. Rusk
Description: First edition (date on title page, no other statement). Brown cloth boards pictorially stamped in tan, dark brown, and pale indigo. Pages show some foxing; a few instances of inexpert page opening. Dust jacket has some wear at ends of spine and at corners; rubbed; bit of soiling to the bottom quarter of the spine; price clipped; in an archival sleeve. 32 illustrated plates, including frontispiece. xii, 309 pp. 8 x 5.5 inches.
A book of cliffs and crags, glaciers and crevasses, rope-work, axe-work, glissading, bergschrunds, aretes, snow cornices, avalanches--everything that goes to make up mountain climbing of the Alpine sort. Washington, Oregon, and Northern California are the scene of these accounts, which are vivacious records of actual ascents by one of the pioneers of mountain climbing in the Pacific Northwest. Mt. Adams is the subject of nine of the fifteen chapters, while the others tell of adventurous ascents of Mount Baker, Rainier, Stuart, Hood, Shasta, and Glacier Peak.
Claude Ewing Rusk (1871-1931) was an American mountaineer from the state of Washington and a pioneer of the mountain routes of the Pacific Northwest.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place: Boston and New York
Year: 1924
Keywords: mountaineering, mountain climbing, Mazamas, Pacific Northwest, Oregon, Washington, Northern California, wilderness, mountains, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, Mount Shasta, Mount Stuart, Western America,
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