Exploring the Unknown: Historic Diaries of Bradford Washburn's Alaska/Yukon Expeditions

Bys: Lew Freedman, Bradford Washburn, Dr. Bradford Washburn

Book Overview

Alaska and the Yukon. Cold. Mysterious. Distant. Imagine how empty and forbidding the region seemed in the 1930s when Bradford Washburn began a series of exploratory expeditions. With its glorious black and white, large format photographs, EXPLORING THE UNKNOWN contains previously unpublished diaries kept during Washburn's 1934 first ascent of Alaska's Mt. Crillon; the 1935 National Geographic Society-sponsored exploration of wilderness region's of Canada's Yukon; and the 1951 first climb of Mt. McKinley's West Buttress.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945397968
• ISBN13: 9780945397960
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Epicenter Pr
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 11.0"