Soul of Wilderness is a stunning collection of photos and essays featuring the wild magnificence of western British Columbia and Alaska. Baldwin and Bily continually return to these places of astonishing natural beauty, where wild wolves, salmon and grizzly bears often have cameos in their adventures!
=0D=0A=This high energy field guide is the next level coffee-table book, bringing readers up close with this one-of-a-kind region. Over the past forty years John Baldwin has completed numerous first ascents and pioneered many remote long ski traverses. He is the author of Mountains of the Coast (Harbour, 1999) and Exploring the Coast Mountains on Skis (John Baldwin, 2009).
=0D=0A=Linda Bily is a passionate skier, photographer and environmental engineer who fell in love with the big coastal glaciers of BC, Yukon and Alaska. She has completed over fifteen long ski mountaineering traverses and her photographs have been published in a wide variety of magazines, catalogues and displays. Traveling by foot and ski, John and Linda’s goal was simply to experience and document as much of these remote places as possible—to wander across the high meadows, ski from mountain tops and revel in the artful patterns of new-fallen snow.
=0D=0A=With 166 full colour photographs, the authors document mountaineering expeditions that last anywhere from one to three weeks and often involve travel across difficult mountain terrain. Soul of Wilderness is sure to inspire readers to discover and connect with the intense beauty of this mountain wilderness.
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