Because It's There: A Celebration of Mountaineering from 200 B.C. to Today

by Alan Weber

Book Overview

Mountains have long inspired the wit and daring of the world's most fascinating explorers. In this definitive collection of mountain lore, Alan Weber exhibits forty-three essays by artists and adventurers to whom climbing was more a mission than a sport. Beginning with the fabled tale of Hannibal's Roman invasion-men, horses, and elephants in tow-through the hitherto impassable Alps, the accounts progress to recent descriptions of high-peaks mountain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878333037
• ISBN13: 9780878333035
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.8"