While I frantically pulled my boots on, Charlie kept screaming, “Hurry! Tent’s taking off! I can’t hold much longer!” All his equipment was in the Kodiak, and its loss would be a major disaster. As Charlie slowly lost his grip on the tent cum sail, he gave ground down the glacier. I bolted out of the Trailridge, ran after him, and just in time, did a painful belly flop onto the Kodiak.

In a knee-barking grounding, the two of us clung to the wildly flapping nylon. Now what? Before I could make any rational assessment, Charlie howled through the wind, “This wasn’t in the brochure!”

Seizing the moment, I bellowed back, “You should have read the fine print instead of just looking at the pictures!”

– Gerry Roach - from Northern Heights — Foraker - Archangel

Northern Heights

Climbing North America’s Highest Peaks

Click the cover for a larger image Join Gerry on his multi decade quest to climb every major North American peak over 16,000 feet. In height order, these peaks are Denali, Logan, Orizaba, Saint Elias, Popo, Foraker, Izta, Lucania, King, Steele, Bona, Blackburn, and Sanford. Gerry was the first person to summit this list of peaks. In true Gerry form, he adds in ten Extra Credit peaks as well. The book contains a whopping 229 photos, and 5 maps. This is an adventure book for serious mountaineers and armchair mountaineers alike. Clip in, and join the fun!

The Chapter Titles are:
One - Touching Greatness - Denali 1963	Two - Das Cave - Rainier 1964
Three - More Volcanic Heat - Wrangell 1964	Four - Touching History - Lucania 1967
Five - Logan’s Light - Logan 1973	Six - Archangel - Foraker 1975
Seven - History Squared - Blackburn 1977	Eight - Muldrow Traverse - Denali 1990
Nine - Alpine Style - Hunter 1994	Ten - Revenge - Sanford 1995
Eleven - To the Crown - King Peak 1999	Twelve - Nice Catch - Saint Elias 2000
Thirteen - Pilgrimage - East Kahiltna 2001	Fourteen - Last Sixteener - Bona 2003
Fifteen - Wisdom Earned - Fairweather

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Northern Heights is available in paper and as a Kindle eBook. The 6x9 inch paper version has a color cover, 408 pages, and 229 black and white photographs. You can buy a signed copy of the paper version from us, or an unsigned copy from Amazon. The Kindle eBook has flowable text, hence no page numbers, 226 color photographs, and 3 black and white photos. The Kindle version is available from Amazon. Choose your Northern Height, and enjoy!

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1. Paper Version. Our price for an autographed copy of this book is $16.95 plus $8.95 for Priority Mail if your total order is less than $35.00.

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