Complete with historic and contemporary photos and maps, this exciting collection of stories brings alive the challenges and triumphs of climbing North America's highest peak.

To the Top of Denali: Climbing Adventures on North America's Highest Peak

History

Sherwonit, Bill

Davidson, Art

Americas

Alaska Northwest Books

Provides a history of the race from the early 1900s, and presents comments from mushers on training, strategy, and their dogs

Iditarod: The Great Race to Nome

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

This traveler's guide to the state parks of Alaska is useful for the traveler and the arm chair traveler. Alaska's state park system is the nation's largest and grandest, covering almost 120 state park units. In words, color photos and maps, Bill Sherwonit details six of the state's wildest, and most alluring parklands. 
Here are glaciers, unscaled mountains, ancient forests, and high alpine tundra. You will see salmon-rich streams, vast lakes, and remote islands. Wildlife abounds, and beauty is to behold. For all their wildness and unspoiled beauty, these parklands are remarkably easy to reach and in most cases, explore.

Alaska's Accessible Wilderness: A Traveler's Guide to AK State Parks

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

The first pocket-sized guidebook to the bears of Alaska, this informative book provides details on bear behaviors, yearly cycles, ecological niches, relations to humans, and more.

Alaska's Bears: Grizzlies, Black Bears, and Polar Bears (Alaska Pocket Guides)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Bill Sherwonit brings to life the adventure, heroism, triumph, and tragedy of climbing North America's highest peak, Denali. He offers great insight and tales of daring adventure for both experienced climbers and armchair explorers who wonder why people climb mountains. The book contains stores about some of the best known personalities associated with the mountain --- from Bradford Washburn to Vern Tejas.

This sweeping reference to Denali National Park and Preserve, and Denali State Park, details in words, pictures, and maps all the information the traveler needs for a great Denali experience.

Denali: The Complete Guide

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

In this revised and updated third edition, Bill Sherwonit brings to life the adventure, heroism, triumph, and tragedy of climbing North America's highest peak, Denali. He offers great insight and tales of daring adventure for both experienced climbers and armchair explorers who wonder why people climb mountains. The book contains stores about some of the best known personalities associated with the mountain --- from Bradford Washburn to Vern Tejas. Sherwonit has added new records and climbing data along with some stories of new faces who have attempted the climb. He also updated the Park Service rules regarding climbing Denali.

To The Top of Denali: Climbing Adventures on North America's Highest Peak

Men. And women. Dogs. The thrill of extreme adventure... the agony of extreme defeat. These are the elements that make up the famous annual Iditarod Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome. Now, just in time for the Iditarod's 30th anniversary, comes this new edition of one of the best-selling books on 'the Big Trail.' Sherwonit recounts the history and past three decades of the Iditarod and looks forward to its promising future, while photographer Jeff Schultz provides thrilling new photos, from the arctic landscape to the competitors and the dogs they rely on.

Sasquatch Books

"The beauty of Sherwonit's writing style is not flash, but rather a subtlety that renders him nearly invisible. A journalist by trade, he demonstrates considerable skill in blending voluminous historical detail into highly readable prose."--Climbing magazine * Part history, part field guide, and part recreation tool, this is an up-to-date and comprehensive guidebook for Denali—one of the nation's most beloved national parks * Includes checklists for wildlife watching and details on winter fun 
 Denali National Park: The Complete Visitors Guide to the Mountain, Wildlife, and Year-Round Outdoor Activities is the most comprehensive guide to one of North America's most wild and varied places. This authoritative reference to Denali National Park and adjacent lands details all the information a traveler needs for a great Alaska experience, whether by bus, car, train, bike, boat, or foot. With this guide in hand you can explore the park's visitor facilities, raft whitewater rapids, pick berries, climb the continent's highest mountain, backpack through forest and tundra, watch grizzlies dig for ground squirrels, share a ridgetop with Dall sheep, attend sled-dog demonstrations, go on ranger-guided hikes, camp in solitude within glacially carved valleys, and much more. From the natural history of the region to the human history of the mountain and the park, Alaskan author Bill Sherwonit captures the mystique of this fascinating place. Even casual travelers to Denali National Park will appreciate his in-depth information about the park's popular entrance area and traveling the Park Road, and the helpful checklists for mammals, birds, and plants.

Denali National Park: The Complete Visitors Guide to the Mountain, Wildlife, and Year-Round Outdoor Activities

MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS+

Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness is an autobiographical exploration of author Bill Sherwonit’s relationship with the Alaska wilderness. Written in three parts, it first describes Sherwonit’s introduction to the Brooks Range and his years as an exploration geologist. Taking a step back, the author then takes us into the past to explore his childhood roots in rural Connecticut and his recognition of wild nature as a refuge. He concludes with his emergence as a nature writer and wilderness advocate. 
An engrossing, fascinating, and eye-opening tale of one man’s life and of wilderness conceptions, this vivid description of an area of Alaska that few people get to experience is authentic and enlightening. It is an extraordinary contribution to the literature of place from one of Alaska’s most accomplished nature writers.

Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

University of Alaska Press

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Books by Sherwonit, Bill

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To the Top of Denali: Climbing Adventures on North America's Highest Peak

Iditarod: The Great Race to Nome

Alaska's Accessible Wilderness: A Traveler's Guide to AK State Parks

Alaska's Bears: Grizzlies, Black Bears, and Polar Bears (Alaska Pocket Guides)

To the Top of Denali: Climbing Adventures on North America's Highest Peak

Denali: The Complete Guide

To The Top of Denali: Climbing Adventures on North America's Highest Peak

Iditarod: The Great Race to Nome

Denali National Park: The Complete Visitors Guide to the Mountain, Wildlife, and Year-Round Outdoor Activities

Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness