Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society (2008) Fiction

Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society (2008) FictionEdited by Ben Orlove, Ellen Wiegandt, and Brian H. Luckman. This is essentially a collection of 20 academic research papers regarding glaciers, climate change, and the social impacts of glacial retreat. Expect plentiful charts, bibliographies, and big words. Hardcover book with no no dust jacket, cover images are printed directly on the boards. 282 pages, b&w, with a hefty index. Published by the University of California Press.

signed by Dingus McGee: "What fun it was knowing that all the sides had not been mapped with routes

Terry Gifford

Some well-known mountains covered include the Eiger

including Vedauwoo

Granite Mountain is near Prescott

IOt tells the early mountaineering history and prehistory of Western Europe's tallest mountain

Yosemite's Vertical Revolution

and multi-pitch topos

Elaine Brook's Tibetan Wanderlust by John Harlin

Covers areas along the I-35 corridor between Fort Worth and San Antonio

with some coverage of Summit County climbs and a small taste of the San Juans

Fossil Falls