People from Union County, Oregon - People from La Grande, Oregon, Steve House, James Floyd Smith, Dallas McKennon, William Marion Ramsey (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From La Grande, Oregon, Steve House, James Floyd Smith, Dallas Mckennon, William Marion Ramsey, James H. Slater, Thomas G. Hailey, Woodson T. Slater, John F. Nugent, Jack Ward Thomas, Bob Herron, Rod Chandler, Mitch Finley, Bucky Buckwalter, John Lamoreau, Leray Wilson, Herbert Jasper, Agnes Vernon, Pete Dowling. Excerpt: Steve House (born 1970) is an American professional climber and mountain guide from La Grande, Oregon. House earned a Bachelor of Science in ecology from The Evergreen State College in 1995. He has been a fully Union Internationale des Associations de Guides de Montagnes-certified guide since 1999, and is the seventh American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) guide to complete the certification. House has guided for Exum Mountain Guides, the American Alpine Institute, and North Cascades Mountain Guides. He now guides independently and is based in Central Oregon, near Bend. His primary work is as an ambassador for the technical outdoor clothing company, Patagonia, where he works with both marketing and product design, development, and testing. He has been a Patagonia ambassador since 1999. He has been called by Reinhold Messner "the best high-altitude climber in the world today." He is vocal in his support of "alpine style" climbs, which involve travelling quickly with little gear, and leaving no gear on the mountain unless he feels like it-see Denali. When, in 2004, the Russian team won the 14th Piolet d'Or for their ascent of the north face of Jannu, he criticized the team for using months to climb the face while setting up fixed ropes, and for leaving 77 ropes behind on the mountain. His book Beyond the Mountain was the 2009 winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5707232