Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #179673 in Books
• Published on: 1979-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 364 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780916890704
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Excellent and Essential for Rainier Climbers!
Molenaar makes a detailed records analysis of the many accidents that have occurred on this massive mountain. For example, the guy who slid a thousand feet in his down booties trying to catch a lid that fell off of his cooking pot. Weird! Also, he details the tragedies with thoughtful suggestions. Our team studied this book before our climb so we would be aware of climbing errors that others have made. I think this is pretty much considered a Rainier classic by now...

Mt. Rainier History and Arm Chair Travel
Great read about Mt. Rainier. I loved the book so much I bought a copy for my cabin up there. Several guests have commented on how much they enjoy it. It's an easy book to read while vacationing at the mountain as you can read individual stories at a time. Very well written, a real page turner!

A superb account of Rainier's historic climbs & disasters.
This is an unforgettable history of Mt. Rainier, its pioneering and more recent explorers of trails to the summit, its geology and natural environment, and its inevitable human disasters. Molenaar's many explanatory sketches of climbing routes and his inclusion of numerous historic photos of famed climbers, guides, and ascents help immensely to illustrate the absorbing text. As one who is intimately familiar both as a guide, an artist, a scientist, and a world-famous mountaineer, he is uniquely fitted to write this story--one which anyone contemplating an ascent of "the mountain" could hardly do without--and he has succeeded beyond measure.