Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Foreword VII
4. Preface IX
5. Publications Cited XI
6. Rugged Individualists 1
7. Scientists and Surveyors 19
8. The Heroic Age 33
9. To the Top of the Continent 51
10. Conrad Kain and Albert MacCarthy 69
11. Mount Alberta 89
12. A Piece of Bent Iron 101
13. Robert Underhill and Jack Durrance 111
14. The Sierrans 127
15. The Pacific Northwest and Alaska 143
16. Mount Waddington 159
17. Worlds Apart 169
18. Hard Rock, Hard Steel 185
19. The Southern Californians 197
20. Ungentlemanly Behavior 213
21. The North Face 231
22. Mount McKinley 255
23. El Capitan 267
24. Layton, the Great 'Un 285
25. North to the Future 325
26. The Granite Crucible 347
27. Into the Seventies 365
28. Index 383