Description
In 1920, thirteen rugged hikers and skiers founded the Wasatch
Mountain Club. At the time, local mountains were littered with
mining debris, cars were rare, and roads rarer. So they hired trucks
to take them to faint trails, bushwhacking their way to lofty peaks.
This riveting collection celebrates their pioneering achievements
and those of members who succeeded them. Join them as they forge
new mountaineering routes, successfully tackle a first descent into
one of the country’s deepest caves, and summit Kings Peak on skis
in a single day—a tradition repeated annually for half a century.
Experience nature’s fury as club members are swept down swollen
rivers, lost in a wild cave, buried by an avalanche, and ambushed
by bison while bicycling in Yellowstone. Confront the terror of a
runaway boulder, the roar of a deadly avalanche, the fog of amnesia
induced by a lightning strike. Partake too in the sublime: rowing
across a lake’s sea glass surface beneath the towering walls of a Grand
Canyon cave, swimming in a secret black lagoon discovered while
canyoneering, and flaunting a blizzard during a backpacking trip, by
sipping daiquiris in a hot pool.
Throughout these stories you’ll find fascinating historical details,
from Yellowstone’s mountain men and the origins of the Tenth
Mountain Division, to the role of the Titanic and a Utah carpenter
in the evolution of river running. Whether your passion is hiking,
climbing, skiing, bicycling, kayaking, snowshoeing, or all of the above,
you’ll find stories to inspire and inform your own adventures.
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