Colorado, American Alpine Club Press, 1993, 1st ed. 315 pp, b/w photos. Used paperback (only edition). Near Fine.
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 1980s to early 1990s. A good read for any climber interested in history.
