Entries filed under 'The Mountaineers Books'

Glissading: Author Shares Tips for Safe Sliding

Mike Zawaski, author of "Snow Travel: Skills for Climbing, Hiking and Moving Across Snow" (published by The Mountaineers Books), discusses the art of glissading—snow quality, slope angle, balance, speed control, braking—with The REI Blog. ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on April 2, 2013 12:00 PM & Tagged Hiking, The Mountaineers Books, glissading, mountaineering and snow travel | permalink | Comments



Love on a Mountain: One Author's Story

Hey, outdoor romantics: Has Val-Day got you dreaming up ways to impress your heartthrob? Try inviting them out for a walk. Up Mount Kilimanjaro, for instance. It worked for Daniel Dorr. Dorr, author of the well-reviewed book Kissing Kilimanjaro: Leaving it All on Top of Africa, is a self-professed regular guy who loves outdoor adventure. He one day realized he also really liked a girl he originally met in Japan in the early 1990s while both were college exchange students. Nonromantic buddies at ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on February 17, 2011 6:28 PM & Tagged Daniel Dorr, Kilimanjaro, Kissing Kilimanjaro, The Mountaineers Books, Travel, adventure and romance | permalink | Comments



Freedom of the Hills: An Outdoor Classic Turns 50

Is it the Bible of mountaineering? After circulating for 50 years and being translated into 10 languages, it would appear that Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills really has taken root as a sacred text of climbing and alpine adventure. Freedom debuted in 1960 as the first book produced by The Mountaineers Books, the publishing division of The Mountaineers -- a nonprofit, Seattle-based club founded in 1906 to further outdoor recreation and conservation through lectures and field trips. That ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on October 20, 2010 10:45 AM & Tagged Ed Viesturs, Jim Whittaker, Mountaineering Freedom of the Hills, The Mountaineers, The Mountaineers Books and conrad anker | permalink | Comments