Postcards From The Trailer ParkBurns
286pp ISBN 1592285406
Stock No. MNU237Here are Cameron Burns's funniest, finest, freshest takes on the people, places, and pursuits of the American climber. He mixes stories about climbing with straightforward reporting and witty, sometimes dark, personal commentary on what he calls "the most expensive and dangerous way to tear rotator cuffs and waste valuable time." Burns's "oddventures" take the reader from an attempt on Aconcagua using a cheap Wal-Mart tent, to the invention of new equipment and the subsidiary sport of "hoopsticking" for the extremely soft rock of the New Mexico desert, to the fine art of spray-painting pitons for identification purposes. His profiles of fellow climbers describe Fred Beckey, David Brower, Galen Rowell, John Middendorf, Warren Hollinger, Pete Athans, Eric Weihenmayer, and others at their best, worst, and weirdest, both in the mountains and under Burns's own "screwily focused" spotlight
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