Bradford Washburn, An Extraordinary Life, livre ebook

Here at last is the thrilling memoir of the legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn, one of the last surviving explorers and adventurers of the twentieth century. Drawing from decades of memories, journals, and an exquisite photographic collection, Washburn completes the self-portrait of a man drawn to altitude, from his first great climb of Mount Washington at age eleven, through numerous first ascents of peaks all over the world, to handily scaling a climbing wall at eighty-eight.
Baker and what we thought was Mount Sanford. But we also had some unexpected fireworks. One night at about 10:00 P.M., an experimental pressure cooker at full boil with water and instant rice blew up. The cover hit my head-which, luckily, was covered by a fur hat, but the red-hot rice hit the back of Terry Moore's neck, burning him severely. The rice fell between his shirt and back, at 212 degrees, and he just screamed with pain.
We made an emergency trip down for treatment for Terry, covering two horizontal miles and sixteen hundred vertical feet in about fifty minutes. We were both mighty lucky we didn't lose our eyes and get scalded to a crisp. The next day Terry had several bad blisters on his neck, and we named the site Explosion Camp.
At 13,000 feet, or camp was blizzard-bound. What began as snow flurries became a first-class blizzard, blowing up the hillside so hard it rolled us gently to and fro in our sleeping bags. I sincerely hoped we were free of avalanche danger. As we moved higher on the mountain we had trouble maintaining radio contact, and we were running low on supplies by July 8. If we had to retreat for lack of supplies then, the entire venture could be defeated.
1. Mountain Beginnings
2. Early Days and Family Life
3• Climbing in the Alps
4. Lecture Tours and a Harvard Education
5. Welcome to Alaska
6. Mount Crillon: My First "First" in Alaska
7. The National Geographic Yukon Expedition
8. Meeting Mount McKinley and Amelia Earhart
9. The Great Lucania Enterprise
10. More New Routes in Alaska
11. A Career and a Marriage Are Born
12. Barbara Climbs Her First Mountain
13. Blending Family and Alaska
14. Climbing Mount McKinley for the U.S. Army
15. World War II Days in Alaska
16. Investigating a Tragic Accident
17. Back to McKinley with Barbara
18. A Crazy Misadventure in China
19. Building Boston's Museum of Science
20. Pioneering Mount McKinley's West Buttress
2I. Mapping McKinley
22. Exploring America with Our Children
23. Telling Everything about Dr. Frederick A. Cook 255
24. A Growing Museum and the Bradford Washburn Award
25. Mapping the Grand Canyon with Barbara
26. Into Africa
27. A Life in Transition
28. Mapping Mount Everest and Keeping Barbara Alive
29. Everest’s Secrets
30. Dining with Presidents and Other Honors
31. It’s a Wonderful Life
Maps by Bradford Washburn
Bradford and Barbara Washburn’s Honorary Degrees
Bradford and Barbara Washburn’s Awards and Prizes
About the Coauthor
Index