Not Without Peril : 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire,9781878239938

Not Without Peril : 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire

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ISBN13: 9781878239938
ISBN10: 1878239937
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Appalachian Mountain Club
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Summary

These compelling profiles of 22 adventurous?yet unlucky?climbers chronicle more than a century of exploration recreation and tragedy in New Hampshire's Presidential Range

Author Biography

Nicholas Howe has been a journalist since 1977. A former contributing editor for Skiing magazine, whose work has appeared in such magazines as Backpacker and Outside, he is a feature writer for the International Journal of Skiing and Yankee magazine. A longtime resident of Jackson, NH, Nick Howe spends his time hiking and working on his next book

Table of Contents

In the Beginning
1(13)
Frederick Strickland
Gentlefolk Essay The Heights
14(11)
Lizzie Bourne
The Man Who Collected Views
25(20)
Dr. Benjamin Lincoln Ball
Calamity in the Unroofed Temple
45(8)
Sewall Faunce
A Presidential Brain Trust
53(22)
William Curtis
Allan Ormsbee
The Grand Scheme
75(19)
John Keenan
The Mayor of Porky Gulch Takes Office
94(21)
Max Engelhart
The Wreck of Old No. 1
115(10)
Daniel Rossiter
Summer People Go North
125(18)
Jessie Whitehead
Wrong-Headed from the Beginning
143(14)
Simon Joseph
A Deadly Crossing in Great Gulf
157(10)
Jerome Pierce
The Choice of Presidents
167(13)
Joseph Caggiano
Death Comes in Small Parts
180(6)
Raymond Davis
The Summit as Home
186(16)
From Homespun to High Tech
202(18)
Philip Longnecker
Jacques Parysko
A Question of Life or Death
220(37)
MacDonald Barr
The Deadliest Season
257(38)
Derek Tinkham
Monroe Couper
Erik Lattey
Cheryl Weingarten
Sarah Nicholson
Acknowledgments 295(4)
Appendix: Deaths on Mount Washington 299(8)
About the Author 307

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