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# Early Days in the Range of Light: Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers Hardcover – September 29, 2009

**Brand:** daniel arnold
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Highly recommended
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2023*

Very good communication,  fast shipment,  highly recommended!

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    A Deeply Moving Account of the Early Sierra Mountaineers
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2009*

Daniel Arnold, a mountaineer and rock climbing instructor from Southern California, revisits significant first ascents by Sierra mountaineers, from Brewer's ascent of Mount Brewer in 1864 to the roped ascent of Thunderbolt in 1931.In addition to giving us insights into the lives and characters of the early mountaineers, Arnold also retraces their routes, leaving aside modern equipment and attempting to experience the mountains as they did.  On the early climbs, he travels alone, without sleeping bag, tent, rain gear, stove, or maps.  He uses only the description of the first ascent as a guide.  Climbing a dangerous snow slope approaching Michael Minaret, with a thin layer of soft powder over old ice, Arnold curses Michael's lack of an ice axe and his own slavish insistence on following suit.Arnold gives insightful and sympathetic portraits of many of the early mountaineers, including Brewer, King, Brown, Muir and Clyde.  His stories of Brown and Clyde are particularly moving, much more so than the typical "He carried a 100 pound pack and an anvil!" anecdotes that one is used to hearing.  He describes Clyde's happy and passionate 1915 marriage to Winnie Bolster, who tragically contracted tuberculosis only a year later and died in 1919.  Clyde never recovered.  Arnold considers whether he would retreat to the mountains, as Clyde did, if his own marriage and climbing partnership were to founder.Arnold's approach of weaving the stories of the mountaineers with his recreations of their ascents is an effective one.  While it is impossible to truly see the mountains through their eyes, by removing our modern gear and maps and GPS units and Spots, Arnold gets close.  After spending a frigid night curled on the ground in a shirt, emulating Muir's ascent of Mt. Ritter, Arnold gains a much better understanding of Muir's prose, " How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountain!  To behold this alone is worth the pains of an excursion a thousand times over."Highly recommended for anyone who loves the Sierra, or who would like to explain their love to puzzled spouses and families.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    THE best mountaineering biography I have ever read about the sierras.
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2017*

I have  been fascinated  with the original mountaineers of the Sierras for many years and have spent a lot of time reading about them.  Daniel Arnold brought these legends together and connected their relationships with the mountains and each other with such detail and poetry I was in heaven.  The fact that he followed in their footsteps  made it all the more fascinating!  I admire the appreciation Arnold has for that era of the original bad asses and the incredible awe of the Sierras.  You don't have to be a mountaineer to get wrapped up in this book.  It is truly an amazing read for anyone!!  Thank you for all your efforts putting this together, Mr. Arnold.

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