Cloud Dancers: Portraits of North American Mountaineers

By: Jonathan Waterman

* Climbing exercises to build strength, endurance, flexibility, and aerobic fitness This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930410548
• ISBN13: 9780930410544
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: AAC Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A good anthology

An anthology featuring profiles of North America's greatest alpinists: Bob Bates, Carlos Buhler, Al Burgess, Kitty Calhoun, H. Adams Carter, Greg Child, Yvon Chouinard, Charles Houston, Jeff Lowe, Greg Lowe, Terris Moore, Lou Reichardt, Rick Ridgeway, John Roskelley, Mugs Stump, Bradford Washburn, Ed Webster, Annie Whitehouse, Fritz Weissner, Mark Wilford. Includes seventeen portrait photographs. Profiles selected from: Climbing, Mens Journal, The New Yorker, Outside, and Rolling Stone. With contributions from today's finest mountain climbing writers: Jeremy Bernstein, Tim Cahill, Michael Kennedy, Jon Krakauer, Alison Osius, David Roberts, John Sherman, Geoffrey Tabin, Beth Wald, Jonathan Waterman, Ed Webster Fine short biographies of the above climbers/mountaineers. The articles were first published in the 1980's to early 1990's. A good read for any climber interested in history.