Peak Experiences: Danger, Death, and Daring in the Mountains of the Northeast

About the Editor

About the Editor Carol Stone White edited Adirondack Peak Experiences: Mountaineering Adventures , Misadventures, and the Pursuit of “The 46” (2009) and Catskill Peak Experiences : Mountaineering Tales of Endurance, Survival, Exploration, and Adventure from the Catskill 3500 Club (2008), both published by Black Dome Press, and Women with Altitude: Challenging the Adirondack High Peaks in Winter, published by North Country Books (2005). With her husband David, she wrote Catskill Day Hikes for All Seasons, published by the Adirondack Mountain Club (2002); the couple also edits ADK’s comprehensive guidebook Catskill Trails, Volume 8 of the Forest Preserve Series, for which they measured 345 miles of trails by surveying wheel. These measurements updated the set of five Catskill Forest Preserve maps published by the New York–New Jersey Trail Conference in 2004. In 2011 they assisted the National Geographic Society in creating a trail map of the Catskill Park. In 2007, Carol received the Susan B. Anthony Legacy Award at the University of Rochester, along with polar explorer Ann Bancroft and long-distance cold-water swimmer Lynne Cox. They spoke on the theme “Daring the Impossible: Strong Women Take on the World,” describing how they draw attention to causes larger than their own ambitions. Visit www.carolwhite.org for further information. In 2006 she and David completed winter climbs of the forty-eight highest peaks in the White Mountains of New Hampshire; in 1997 they completed winter climbs of the forty-six Adirondack High Peaks; and in 1994 became winter members of the Catskill 3500 Club, whose members climb the thirty-five peaks exceeding 3,500 feet in the Catskill Forest Preserve. Carol served from 2003 to 2007 on the Adirondack 46ers Executive Committee; she also chairs the 3500 Club conservation committee (David is the 3500 Club membership chairman). In 2000 they completed the Northeast 111, climbing all of the peaks that exceed 4,000 feet in New York and New England; they also have climbed eight of the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado. They participate in trail maintenance, lead hikes, restore lean-tos, write monthly hiking columns for the Catskill Mountain Region Guide and the Poughkeepsie Journal, and have led three 4-week hiking classes for the Mohawk Valley Institute for Learning in Retirement. Carol’s commentary on how one becomes lost in the forest appeared in a New York Times science column by Henry Fountain in August 2009; that month they helped rescue an injured hiker on Mount Marcy, a story in this book. ...