Because It's There - Weber, Alan
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Beginning with Hannibal's legendary crossing of the Alps and concluding with present-day firsthand accounts of Everest and K-2 expeditions, this engrossing collection presents 43 essays, poems, and reminiscences by artists and adventurers to whom climbing is more personal mission than sport.
A collection of classic mountaineering stories.

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Beginning with Hannibal's legendary crossing of the Alps and concluding with present-day firsthand accounts of Everest and K-2 expeditions, this engrossing collection presents 43 essays, poems, and reminiscences by artists and adventurers to whom climbing is more personal mission than sport.
A collection of classic mountaineering stories.
Autorenporträt
Weber is an historian as well as an avid climber. He is currently a research fellow of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University and a CEMERS Associate Fellow at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the editor of Nineteenth Century Science: A Selection of Original Texts and Women Almanac Writers . A long-time member of the Penn state Outing and Cornell Outing Clubs, he has rock- and ice-climbed in the Adirondacks, Green and Shawangunk Mountains, and Mount Rainier.