The Altitude Experience: Successful Trekking and Climbing Above 8,000 Feet

Farris provides the tools and knowledge needed to have a safer and more successful outing, whether you’re day hiking above treeline in Colorado or aiming for the top of Everest. This combines the science of the body’s responses to high altitude with the accumulated wisdom of experienced adventurers. Chapers include heat, cold, dehydration, emotional factors, exercise, and others, together with excerpts from works by Alvarez, Armstrong, Bates, Bauer, Bettembourg, Blum, Bonington, Boukreev, Breashears, Buhl, Burgess, Child, Clinch, Craig, Crowley, Curran, Dickinson, Diemberger, Eggler, Evans, Fowler, Franco, Habeler, Harvard, Haston, Hornbein, Jordan, Kauffman, Kellas, Krakauer, Kropp, Kukuczka, Maraini, Messner, Noel, Noyce, Patey, Putnam, Ridgeway, Roberts, Rose, Roskelley, Saunders, Sayre, Scott, Shipton, Smythe, Tasker, Taylor, Tilman, Venables, Viesturs, Webster, and Wickwire.