Close Ups of the High Sierra (Paperback or Softback)

Clyde, Norman

ISBN 10: 0964753030 / ISBN 13: 9780964753037

Editore: Spotted Dog Press, Inc. 11/10/2014, 2014

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• Titolo: Close Ups of the High Sierra (Paperback or Softback)
• Editore: Spotted Dog Press, Inc. 11/10/2014
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0964753030
• ISBN 13: 9780964753037
• Rilegatura: Paperback or Softback
• Disegnatore: Ruth Daly; Vern Clevenger
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 0,59 libbre
• Tipo di libro: Book

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ÒNo man ever knew more of the High Sierra terrain than Norman Clyde.Ó David R. Brower ÒNot since the time of John Muir had anyone established such a kinship with the Sierra Nevada.Ó Los Angeles Times ÒWherever men gather around blazing campfires on cold nights in the high country and talk of the history of mountaineering, there are names that inevitably come into the conversation. . . among Americans, John Muir, Clarence King and Norman Clyde.Ó San Francisco Chronicle

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Recollections by Glen Dawson I was a young boy when I first met Norman Clyde. Though I donÕt remember exactly when I met him, I do know that on the Sierra Club High Trip of 1926 to Yellowstone National Park, my father left me in the care of Dr. Vernon Bailey and went off with Norman Clyde and others to climb the Grand Teton.Norman Clyde lived much of his life in the Owens Valley and the Sierra Nevada. He came to Los Angeles once or twice a year and would use DawsonÕs Book Shop as his post office, bank, library and storage facility. He was about three years younger than my father, Ernest.During the summer of 1927, I was again on the Sierra Club High Trip where I made my first High Sierra climb, an ascent of Table Mountain led by Norman Clyde, who at the time was still a high school principal in Independence.On some of the High Trips, Norman was paid to assist on mountain climbs. Jules Eichorn and I usually preferred to climb on our own at our own pace, but Norman made himself available to us for advice and suggestions.In 1931, Francis Farquhar invited me and Jules Eichorn to be part of the Palisade Climbing School with Norman Clyde and Robert Underhill. Norman was our guide in the ascents of what are now known as Starlight and Thunderbolt. Following the Palisades, five of us went to Mt. Whitney. Jules roped up with Norman and I with Robert Underhill. On August 16, 1931, we climbed the East Face of Mt. Whitney.In 1932, Bestor Robinson organized a climb of El Picacho del Diablo, the highest peak in Baja California. Norman Clyde, Dick Jones, Walter Brem, Nathan Clark and I were invited to participate.In 1933, Jules Eichorn, Dick Jones and I were asked to join the search for Walter Starr Jr. We found indications of his being on Michael Minaret. After the search was called off and most of us had to leave, it was Norman who stayed on and found StarrÕs body, which he interred in a great cairn of granite.I always had to reduce my load of equipment to the bare minimum to keep up with Norman. He could carry monumental loads which included such items as a pistol, a shoe cobblerÕs outfit, sewing equipment, books, tools and kitchenware. Much of this seemed unnecessary to me.Once he visited us at our home in Los Angeles. The back end of his car was piled high with camping gear and Norman admitted there was a mouse living in the back of his automobile. He wasnÕt able to catch the mouse although his experiences trapping martens in the High Sierra during the dead of winter were quite successful.Norman was always very polite and cooperative with me, perhaps because I was one of ErnestÕs sons. However, on occasion, Norman could be very persistent, stubborn, and unyielding. His published writings gave elegant details of his prodigious mountain climbing feats, while his personal letters expressed his opinions colorfully and definitely.Norman wrote, rewrote and recycled his submissions to a wide variety of mostly obscure periodicals, but he had one good paying customer, Phil Townsend Hanna of Touring Topics, the Automobile Club of Southern CaliforniaÕs original monthly magazine, and predecessor to Westways and Avenues. A bibliography or checklist of ClydeÕs published writings would certainly be a challenge to anyone willing to take on the task. One of my own most treasured items, is a four page off-print from the 1931 American Alpine JournalÕs ÒDifficult Peaks of the Sierra Nevada,Ó which Norman inscribed to me.There has been an increasing interest in the life and exploits of Norman Clyde. No one has had a closer identification with the summits of the High Sierra than Norman Clyde and no one will ever duplicate what he accomplished in his lifetime.