Missing in the Minarets: The Search for Walter A. Starr, Jr.

by William Alsup

Overview

This riveting narrative details the mysterious disappearance of Peter Starr, a San Francisco attorney from a prominent family, who set off to climb alone in the rugged Minaret region of the Sierra Nevada in July 1933. Rigorous and thorough searches by some of the best climbers in the history of the range failed to locate him despite a number of promising clues. When all hope seemed gone and the last search party had left the Minarets, mountaineering legend Norman Clyde refused to give up. Climbing alone, he persevered in the face of failure, resolved that he would learn the fate of the lost man. Clyde’s discovery and the events that followed make for compelling reading. Recently reissued with a new afterword, this re-creation of a famous episode in the annals of the Sierra Nevada is mountaineering literature at its best.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951179083
Publisher:	Yosemite Conservancy
Publication date:	06/23/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	569,184
File size:	26 MB
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Table of Contents

	Foreword	9
	Introduction	11
Chapter 1	Walter ("Peter") Starr, Jr.	15
Chapter 2	Missing	25
Chapter 3	The Ritter Range and The Minarets	33
Chapter 4	Michael and Clyde Minarets	45
Chapter 5	Eichorn and Dawson	53
Chapter 6	Ediza Base Camp	67
Chapter 7	August 16	73
Chapter 8	August 17 and 18	85
Chapter 9	Clyde Alone	91
Chapter 10	Dinner with the Farquhars	101
Chapter 11	August 25	105
Chapter 12	The Highest Monument	109
Chapter 13	Echoes Stilled	123
Chapter 14	Fading Light	131
Chapter 15	Exegesis	137
Chapter 16	Return to the Minarets	161
	Afterword: A Comment on the Investigation	169
	Endnotes	177