Bradford Washburn, An Extraordinary Life by Bradford Washburn,Lew Freedman

By Bradford Washburn,Lew Freedman

the following ultimately is the exciting memoir of the mythical mountaineer Bradford Washburn, one of many final surviving explorers and adventurers of the 20th century. Drawing from many years of stories, journals, and a fantastic photographic assortment, Washburn completes the self-portrait of a guy attracted to altitude, from his first nice climb of Mount Washington at age 11, via quite a few first ascents of peaks world wide, to handily scaling a hiking wall at eighty-eight.

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