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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
a fantastic universe where the presence of man was not foreseen - Maurice Herzog's
Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak
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Books that generate other books, books that are first in the line, interest me. Despite little interest in mountaineering, I read Annapurna...
Thursday, June 25, 2015
If it's the English lady traveling in the mountains -
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
by Isabella Bird
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Since I was just in the Rocky Mountains, I will linger there for a day by writing about A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) by Isab...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada with Clarence King - He has n’t what old Ruskin calls for
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Clarence King, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1872). What we have here is a series of informal, amusing and instructive articles wri...
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Sir, the winter is also very beautiful. - enjoying the view atop
Indian Summer
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Stifter carefully places his characters in a landscape. Sometimes – often – he invents them, like the boulder-strewn hills in his novella “...
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