The White Mountain
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"Informative funny and full of fascinating characters . . . Dan Szczesny bushwhacks a fresh new wonder-filled trail. From the foreword by Rebecca Rule Over the course of one calendar year journalist Dan Szczesny explored the history and mystique of New England s tallest mountain. But Mount Washington is more than just a 6 288-foot rock pile; the mountain is the cultural soul of climbers hikers and tourists from around the world. Szczesnys research took him outside of the archives; he was on the team of a ninety-seven-year-old ultra-runner he dressed as Walt Whitman and read poetry while hiking up the mountain and he spent a week in winter cooking for the scientists at the observatory. In The White Mountain Szczesny turns a veteran journalists eye toward exploring Mount Washingtons place in the collective consciousness of the country and how this rugged landscape has reflected back a timeless history of our obsession and passion for exploration and discovery.
