Early Days in the Range of Light: Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers

by Daniel Arnold

Book Overview

"A splendid chronicle of early climbing in the Sierra Nevada." --Royal Robbins

It's 1873. Gore-Tex shells and aluminum climbing gear are a century away, but the high mountains still call to those with a spirit of adventure. Imagine the stone in your hands and thousands of feet of open air below you, with only a wool jacket to weather a storm and no rope to catch a fall.

Daniel Arnold did more than imagine--he spent three years...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582435197
• ISBN13: 9781582435190
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 9.2"