Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (Conrad Anker - Essentiamountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (Conrad Anker - Essential History of Exploration & Mou

Journeys and Journals from the World's Great Explorers. In a new kind of "choose your own adventure," series, enjoy original accounts of 18th and 19th century pioneers that make up The Essential History of Exploration & Mountaineering. This unique historical collection is presented by Conrad Anker, a modern-day explorer whose own expeditions and adventures have spanned the globe. Written in a time before computers, GPS, and Wikipedia, these meticulous treatments of voyaging, mountaineering, and nature create a living image of what it is like to truly appreciate the unknown. MOUNTAINEERING IN THE SIERRA NEVADA With literary bravado and a scholar-turned-adventurer's flare for storytelling, Clarence King recounts his exploits as a mountaineer of the Sierra Nevada Range in the mid-19th century. King's sense of humor is evident even as he risks his life to scale mounts Tyndall, Shasta and Whitney on a journey that is as much about self-discovery as it is an exploration of the glories and hazards of nature. A pioneer of American mountaineering, Clarence King surveyed the American West from Wyoming to California. Mountaineer Conrad Anker is a California native who grew up scaling El Capitan and has established his own line, "Continental Drift," climbing the 3000-foot monolith in a day.