sierra nevada (calif. and nev.)

"In this first-person account, former Olympian Eric LeMarque recounts a harrowing tale of survival--of eight days in the frozen wilderness, of losing his legs to frostbite, and coming face-to-face with death. But Eric's ordeal on the mountain was only part of his struggle for survival--as he reveals, with startling candor, an even more harrowing and inspiring tale of fame and addiction, healing and triumph.--From publisher description.

Examines the geology and natural history of the highest regions of California's Sierra Nevada range, and looks at the records of early explorations of the peaks. Includes maps, photographs, and geologic guides.

In October 2005, two mountaineers climbing in the High Sierra found the mummified remains of a man in a World War II uniform entombed in the ice. The discovery started an investigation and the four-man crew on a routine navigation training flight in 1942, one hundred and fifty miles off-course from its reported destination, were found. The cause of the crash was bad weather, bad luck, and bad timing. And then in 2007, the second body of the flight crew was found in the glacier.

Jordan Fisher-Smith chronicles the experiences he has had during his fourteen-year career as a park ranger in the Sierra Nevada river canyons.

This is a tale of three inexperienced hikers who embark on a 15-day vacation in a remote wilderness. At the height of an extreme drought, with packs almost too heavy to carry, and lacking in experience and conditioning, one of the group gets separated and lost.

When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.

When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.

Describes the adventures of a weasel, a Sierra grouse, a chickaree, a black bear, a lizard, a coyote, a deer mouse, a Steller jay and a mule deer at Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park.

The journal of naturalist John Muir, in which he records his thoughts and experiences in the Sierra Mountains, where he went for the first time in 1869 to oversee the movement of a band of sheep to summer pasture. Includes color photographs of the area as well as Muir's illustrations from the original work.