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Old school : a mountain guide's life before the net
- Title
- Old school : a mountain guide's life before the net / Vincent R. Lee.
- Author
- Lee, Vincent R.
- Publication
- [Place of publication not identified] : Sixpack Manco Publications, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- 152 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- It was the Golden Age of backcountry mountaineering and Vincent Lee was lucky enough to be there. Forty years he wandered the high country, thirty as an instructor and guide, mostly with young beginners. The ranges were wild and empty. The digital genie was still in its bottle. No net, GPS, sat or cel phones. Packs were big. Food was awful. Tired, scared, hungry, bug-bitten, filthy, wet and miserable Lee and his clients were, but they felt like giants, latter-day "mountain men," roaming the wilderness, avoiding trails, fording rivers, camping wherever they wanted, climbing whatever they liked, dealing with the Earth on its own terms. The whole idea was to disconnect, get out, up and away and for a few brief, shining moments be free! How rare today the freedom they so easily found then. This is a story of a mountain guide's life before we were all deported to the tiny planet Cyberon, where connectivity is king and getting back to the Earth and away a forgotten joy
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies.
- ISBN
- 9781532366550
- 1532366558
- OCLC
- on1305877175
- 1305877175
- SCSB-14260563
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library