Walking to Extremes

For more than sixty-five years, since the age of twelve, Howard McCord has been a walker, rock climber, and spelunker across three continents -- and a poet-philosopher of the interactions between the mind and the natural world through more than twenty books. In Walking to Extremes, McCord recounts hiking the arctic deserts of Iceland and the hot deserts of New Mexico, and of returning after many years to a peak in the Organ Mountains. He writes with the compelling vitality of an adventurer and the engaging curiosity of a naturalist and historian, making Walking to Extremes an essential book for the armchair explorder as well as the most ardent backpacker. With five photographs and one drawing.