Skier, climber and photographer George Henderson has lived a life of adventure and now in his 90th year relives some of those adventures in this memoir, Lonely on the Mountain. However, the book is more than the memoir of one man - it is also the memoir of a mountain - Mount Hood - from the 1920s to World War II.
The book begins with an account of George's childhood. In 1920 the family moved to Montana where his father built a modern sawmill on the Flathead Indian Reservation. During the next 10 years, they lived in western Montana and Idaho, following the fortunes of the lumber business....