Climbing to Freedom

A collection of stories, true stories, of climbs the author has made around the world,—from the vertical cliffs of Yosemite Valley to ice-shrouded summits in Alaska and Patagonia—daring and sometimes desperate adventures and misadventures that Dick Dorworth has lived through and distilled in his intensely personal style. Portraits and profiles of notable climbers, all personal friends from a lifetime on the crags, essays on the climbing life, and a pair of most unusual mountaineering short stories complete this collection of Dick Dorworth’s very best writing on mountains and mountaineering, rocks and rock climbing, and those who have devoted their lives to this passion for the heights.