Washburn: Extraordinary Adventures of a Young Mountaineer

Bradford Washburn is well known for his daring climbs of the world's highest peaks, his pioneering work in aerial photography and mountain cartography, and founding the internationally renown Boston Museum of Science. But his bold exploits started long before he first set eyes on McKinley and the Yukon. As a teenager, Washburn climbed Mount Washington—home of the "worst weather in the world"—in winter; scaled unclimbed peaks in the French Alps; and with a team of Harvard Mountaineers, made a …