Gary Snyder has a long reputation for writing with lyrical conviction about the natural world--mountains, rivers, forests--and his encounters with it as a hiker, climber, poet, and environmentalist. In DANGER ON PEAKS, Snyder writes mostly about his experiences climbing mountains, including Mount St. Helens on the day the atomic bomb was dropped (with the photo he took while he was there). But he also writes about baking bread, sudden death, his Japanese wife, and a local carwash. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.