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The biography of Charles Houston, M.D., famed for leading the heroic K2 expedition of 1953 and his pioneering research in high-altitude medicine.In Brotherhood of the rope, Bernadette McDonald traces the development of an American hero. Houston is a mountaineer whose groundbreaking medical experiments on altitude and the human body helped calibrate the nation's WWII air-assault strategy and shorten the war. This is the man personally recruited...

A fascinating look at the urgent plight of our most precious natural resource and its future from 14 prominent environmental writers, developed by the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture and New York Times national correspondent Douglas Jehl.