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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: mountaineer's life
  name:
    name part: Steck, Allen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 253 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Sixteen-year-old Allen Steck made his initial climb, a first ascent of Mount Maclure in the Sierras, with no hardware, no ropes, no experience. but the event turned his into a mountaineer's life. Over seventy years later, Steck has had a prolific climbing career, including a 1954 expedition to Makalu, a 1963 first ascent of the south face of the Clyde Minaret, and a 1965 first ascent of the Hummingbird Ridge on Mount Logan. These are stories from the days when mountain climbing was discovery, when men like Steck forged new routes, both literal and literary. With dry humor and detailed recall, he captures the excitement and intrigue of a time when there were few rules and no guidelines. With amazing photographs, many published for the first time, this memoir is a treasure and inspiration, and an anchor to the foundation of the life-changing sport of alpine climbing.
  table of contents: Formative Years -- Big Climbs -- Childhood, Family, and Business -- Close Calls and Other Adventures -- Perspectives.
  note: Allen Steck ; foreword by Steve Roper.
  note: Illustrations on endpapers.
  note: Given by Charles R. Tapley, Julie Tapley, David Tapley and Kyle Tapley in honor of John T. Tapley.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Steck, Allen
  subject:
    topic: Mountaineers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Alpinistes
    genre: Biographies
  classification: 796.522092
  identifier: 9781938340703
  identifier: 1938340701
  identifier: 2017909202
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170401
    record change date: 20260303164006.8
    record identifier: in00005691683