Reflections on Mountaineering: Third Edition: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains

Presented as eighty narrative-style poems, some of which are rhyming and others are in prose or blank verse, Reflections on Mountaineering, Third Edition: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains summarizes much of what the author, Alan V. Goldman, learned in his more than thirty years of climbing. Many of the same moral issues that confront us in everyday life are present in the high mountains, only to a sharper degree. Musing on topics such as awe and wonder, fear and how to...