The High Sierra

by Kim Stanley Robinson

ISBN: 9780316593014

Published: 2022-05-10

An intimate, panoramic journey through the Sierra Nevada, the best hiking mountains on Earth, according to bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and scrambling on a jungle gym like an energized child. He has gone back to the mountains again and again over the course of his life--more than a hundred trips--and has gathered a vast store of knowledge about this extraordinary range in the process. The High Sierra is his celebration of this exceptional place, a treat for those who know it and a guide for those who don't--an exploration of what makes this span of mountains one of the most compelling places on Earth. Robinson tells the story of the Sierras through many aspects. He describes the geological forces that shaped it, and the history...