The Majestic Rocky Mountains

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"we started in the desert . . . and ended in
fields of snow____ We traded heat for cold,
exhaustion for giddiness at the heights. We climbed a mountain." The mountain is New Mexico's Wheeler Peak, explored by author William Ellis on a six-month odyssey through the Rocky Mountains.
The Rockies carry part of North America's great watershed —the Continental Divide. They belong to a mountain system that stretches 5,000 miles from northern Alaska into Mexico. Uplift, faulting, folding, and erosion over millions of years created i4,ooo-foot peaks, windswept valleys, and crystal lakes. Today expert skiers land in helicopters deep in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. Robust hikers follow Canada's Great Divide Trail. And kayak-ers brave the rapids of the Colorado River.
With author Ellis and photographer Dick Durrance you will discover the incredibly diverse flora of the region, from colorful cactus to delicate alpine blooms. You will travel by snowcoach through Yellowstone... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"we started in the desert . . . and ended in
fields of snow____ We traded heat for cold,
exhaustion for giddiness at the heights. We climbed a mountain." The mountain is New Mexico's Wheeler Peak, explored by author William Ellis on a six-month odyssey through the Rocky Mountains.
The Rockies carry part of North America's great watershed —the Continental Divide. They belong to a mountain system that stretches 5,000 miles from northern Alaska into Mexico. Uplift, faulting, folding, and erosion over millions of years created i4,ooo-foot peaks, windswept valleys, and crystal lakes. Today expert skiers land in helicopters deep in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. Robust hikers follow Canada's Great Divide Trail. And kayak-ers brave the rapids of the Colorado River.
With author Ellis and photographer Dick Durrance you will discover the incredibly diverse flora of the region, from colorful cactus to delicate alpine blooms. You will travel by snowcoach through Yellowstone Park, where bison and elk forage among deep drifts.
In this book you will visit towns like Kaslo, British Columbia, where logging has replaced mining as the main source of livelihood. And Rifle, Colorado, on the brink of prosperity —for years —from oil shale.
Many people have called the Rockies home, including frontiersmen like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson, and Brigham Young, leader of the Mormon pioneers. Today, poet and novelist James Welch, a Blackfeet Indian, writes of the emptiness of life on a reservation. Agnes Armstrong O'Hair says, of her ranch home, "All things considered, there's no place I'd rather be."
Illustrated with 130 vivid photographs, The Majestic Rocky Mountains portrays a region in transition, where the deprived seek a share in prosperity-and prosperity itself may threaten the quality of life. But as author Ellis writes, "the Mountain West is not likely to lose its distinction as the heartland of wilderness in this country."
Beneath windswept North Maroon Peak, backpackers on skis slog through the White River National Forest, Colorado. Vast wilderness and recreational areas draw millions of people annually to the Rocky Mountains. Vissza