New biography of Bradford Washburn

[B the Hiker]

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/arti...counts_life_of_mountaineer_bradford_washburn/

LAST OF HIS KIND: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America’s Boldest Mountaineer by David Roberts

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

If you're into instant gratification you can order it from Amazon.

I, for one, will wait until it is in stock at the hiking community's bookstore: The Mountain Wanderer.

 

[ajtiv]

I read it and it is the best book on Washburn yet.
What an amazing life and man
A true adventurer.
Al

 

[B the Hiker]

I had a chance to hear Washburn speak at MIT some time around 2000-2001, and he was hilarious and very interesting. Also just read about him in Forever on the Mountain, which painted a different side to him. I'm interested to see what this book has to say about his role in the Denali disaster. By the time he was interviewed by Forever on the Mountain he was either senile or didn't want to talk about it.