On High: Brad Washburn Hardcover | All Books sku-6531174972

On High: The Adventures of Legendary Mountaineer, Photographer, and Scientist Brad Washburn is a new English-language hardcover listed under All Books. By Bradford Washburn and Donald Smith, it has a sewn, cloth-over-boards binding, 240 pages, and ISBN 9780792269113. SKU: sku-6531174972. This illustrated autobiography covers Washburn's mountaineering, photography, and cartography, with previously unpublished original material. He wrote about Alpine climbs as a teenager and later authored or co-authored more than a dozen mountaineering books. In 1935, at age 25, he led the National Geographic Yukon Expedition on the first winter crossing of the St. Elias Range and wrote about it for National Geographic. In 1936, he met Amelia Earhart to discuss serving as navigator on her planned round-the-world flight. He became director of the Boston Museum of Science in 1939 and spent almost half a century there, developing it into a leading science museum. In 1948, he led a Chinese-American expedition to the Himalayas and spent three months in eastern China. He made the first ascent of Mount McKinley by the West Buttress in 1951, a route now favored by climbers, and photographed and mapped the mountain from the air in 1953. In the early 1990s, he mapped Everest and helped establish a corrected height. The book is described as the first complete autobiography or biography of Washburn.You may also like Jeffrey Allen Tucker All Books | sku-920836846 Hardcover.