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Soul of the Rockies

Name: Soul of the Rockies
Author: Ed Cooper
ISBN: 9780762749416

by Ed Cooper

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Overview

Discover the essence of the Rockies through Ed Cooper’s lens. Celebrate the remarkable Rocky Mountains with this stunning photographic feast that takes us from the Canadian border at Idaho and Montana to the Mexican border at Big Bend National Park. Author, photographer, and legendary “climbing bum” Ed Cooper brings America’s most iconic mountain range to life, passionately zeroing in on the heart of the Rockies, including most of the better known subranges, and capturing views of the highest peaks in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.
In keeping with his sensibilities as a mountaineer and climber, Cooper provides the most current and relevant geodetic data for every featured peak, including newer, corrected altitudes that reflect more accurate measuring by the National Geodetic Survey. Readers can now easily look up each peak on topographic maps or view them in stunning three-dimensional display using tools such as Google Earth thanks to Cooper’s impressive collection of data found at the end of each chapter.
Unlike any other book on the Rocky Mountains, Soul of the Rockies focuses exclusively on the mountains themselves rather than dwelling on related themes such as flora, fauna, mining, logging, and history. It is quite simply a distillation of the best views the Rockies have to offer, revealing through this spectacular work all the glory of America’s largest mountain range.

Synopsis

This is the second book in Ed Cooper's Soul of the Heights series and is intended to be a celebration of the Rocky Mountains, capturing on film and in text what the author describes as the soul of the Rocky Mountains.

About the Author, Ed Cooper

Ed Cooper became the first “climbing bum” in the Pacific Northwest during the Golden Age of North American climbing (1950s and 1960s). He is the author of the acclaimed Soul of the Heights (FalconGuides), and his photos have graced the covers of Audubon, Arizona Highways, Backpacker, National Geographic, and Sierra. Ed lives in Sonoma, California.