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What personality trait makes someone start up a sheer rock face with no established route, with avalanche-prone snows overhead, through a maze of yawning crevasses, with the wind whistling and swirling? Ed Cooper was always a bit of a maverick. He was bright, restless, and curious. Whatever the makeup of his psyche, it led him to unforeseen heights in the early years of North American mountaineering. InSoul of the Heights, he reveals his story as a pioneering climber with a passion for, and lifetime dedication to, the majestic mountains of North America. First conquering hundreds of imposing faces and peaksmany of them previously unclimbedthen photographing them with an intimate eye, Ed Cooper has maintained this love affair with the mountains for more than fifty years.Cooper, Ed is the author of 'Soul of the Heights 50 Years Going to the Mountains', published 2007 under ISBN 9780762745272 and ISBN 0762745274.
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