“Part environmental humanities treatise and part memoir, Weltzien’s study illuminates the cultural meaning of mountain wilderness.”-Scott Slovic, coeditor of Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture
“Open[s] up new approaches to mountain literature, where historical, environmental, commercial, and literary viewpoints make clearer why and how we have sanctified these high-altitude monuments. You won’t hike or look at these mountains again in the same way after reading this remarkable book.”-Bill Lang, author of Confederacy of Ambition: William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory
“To live under the volcano with Weltzien is to hike, sometimes anxiously, through fields of sociology, tourism, urban planning, and ecology-then to pause to contemplate lava domes, landscape painting, and indoor climbing walls. A book to engage both climbers and watchers.”-Laurie Ricou, author of The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest
