Cold Feet—the title says it all. Written from the wide-eyed, self-effacing perspective of a mountaineer who pursues epic adventure while locked in a perpetual struggle with fear and self-doubt, David Pagel’s stories—featured in Climbing magazine, Ascent, and Rock and Ice magazine—are modern climbing classics chronicling the experiences of an everyman climber who dreams big. From Africa to Alaska, from the sheer walls of Devils Tower and El Capitan to the icy flanks of the Matterhorn and the mythic North Face of the Eiger, Pagel has never let his status as a run-of-the mill, middling climber (from the Great Plains, no less!) deter him from tackling the world’s iconic peaks or seeking out the sport’s legendary mountaineers. An insightful and hilarious collection of whimsical climbing stories, profiles, and perspective…including a never-before-published selection of verse! Shortlisted for the 2015 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.

Cold Feet: Stories of a Middling Climber On Classic Peaks & Among Legendary Mountaineers

Sports & Outdoors

PAGEL, David

Mountaineering

David Pagel

“There’s one thing you have to know from the beginning—this is a love story.” Thus begins the true story of Harold Stevens, who joined the navy as a boy in the closing months of World War II, and during the occupation of Japan encountered a girl who would change his life forever. She was an elite geisha, one of the greatest cultural icons in Japanese society, and his infatuation marked the beginning of a singular journey encompassing forbidden passion, a bold crime, ruinous war, a man’s triumphs and tragedies, and in the end, an enduring love.

The Forever Girl

Biographies & Memoirs

Stevens, Harold I.

Memoirs

A celebration of America’s favorite football team’s newest home. In the design and construction of the new Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, an inspired mission to integrate world-class contemporary art into a state-of-the-art football stadium created an instant architectural icon. Nineteen works of contemporary art, most commissioned for specific sites within the stadium building, were installed to dynamically complement the architecture. The artists range from established stars of the art world like Olafur Eliasson, Lawrence Weiner, and Mel Bochner, to up-and-coming names such as Matthew Ritchie, Doug Aitken, and Teresita Fernández, among others, with the resulting collection rivaling that of any world-class galleries. Even without the art, the Cowboys Stadium is an engineering marvel. A twenty-first-century retractable roofing system allows natural light and air to be exposed onto the world’s largest column-free interior space. Lauded by the Wall Street Journal as "simply mesmerizing," the Cowboys Stadium is a work of art in its own right. This volume captures the exhilaration of the synergy of art and architecture in this lauded landmark.

Cowboys Stadium: Architecture, Art, Entertainment in the Twenty-First Century

Arts & Photography

Dillon, David

Architecture

Rizzoli

Plane/Structures

History

Fellows of Contemporary Art

"The sizzling, scintillating juice that flows between viewers and the works in this show may seem to be magic because none of them has to be plugged in," writes Los Angeles Times critic David Pagel, extolling the media featured in Electric Mud, which is published concurrently with an exhibition that Pagel organized at Houston's Blaffer Gallery. Pagel's "juice" and the "electric mud" of this volume's title refer to paint and clay, which are examined here for their physical similarities and fluid boundaries. Six full-color illustrations are given to each artist included: Brian Calvin, Anna Sew Hoy, Ron Nagle, Michael Reafsnyder, James Richards and Patrick Wilson--all of whom collapse the fictitious distinctions between art and craft, painting and ceramics, form and function, leisure and labor, still life and real life, confounding the boundaries between each. The edition includes essays by Pagel and Sara Cochran, Phoenix Art Museum curator.

Electric Mud

Cochran, Sara

History & Criticism

Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston

Rodney Carswell: Selected Works, 1975-1993

Renaissance Society

Published by SITE Santa Fe – 87 pages, 56 color plates, softback, 12 x 8 1/2 inches – Introduction by Louis Grachos, Essays by David Moos, David Pagel and Bruce W. Ferguson – Participating Artists: Polly Apfelbaum, David Batchelor, Martha Benzing, Linda Besemer, Ingrid Calame, Paul Campbell, Helmut Dorner, Mark Francis, Barbara Gallucci, Jason Martin, Kirk McCarthy, John McCracken, Olivier Mosset, Cornelia Parker, Florence Pierce, Carter Potter, David Reed, Paul Sarkisian, Linda Stark, Jennifer Steinkamp, John Torreano, Robert Youds.

Postmark : An Abstract Effect

Ferguson, Bruce W.

Grachos, Louis

King, Sarah S.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

SITE, Santa Fe

ARTPIX 2: Ultralounge and Color Fields

Hickey, Dave

Fredericka Hunter

ARTPIX

A limited edition book of paintings, by Irene Hardwicke Olivieri. This book contains fifty color plates of paintings and drawings, a selection of the artist's work from the past ten years. The forward is written by David Pagel, with a biographical essay by E.B. Coffin, and excerpts from The New York Times reviews, as well as Art & Antiques and Juxtapoz. The work is original and lively, filled with secrets of nature and nudes.

Irene Hardwicke Olivieri : Paintings

Giant Paws

An amazing true story of sled dog adventure. Delightfully illustrated by Rick Allen's stunning wood engravings.

The First Chinook: The Adventures Of Arthur T. Walden And His Legendary Sled Dog, Chinook

Children's Books

Kenspeckle Letterpress

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