A Place In Which To Search Summers in the Wind Rivers

Joe Kelsey has spent more than 40 years climbing and wandering in the Wind River Mountains, and was an Exum mountain guide in the Tetons for 20 years. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "Joe Kelsey is the Wind River Mountain's Edward Abbey. With wry wit and understated eloquence, Kelsey describes his half century of exploring one of the most fabled ranges in the West. Kelsey is a climber, but his approach to mountains is aesthetic. He is as drawn to the sublime beauty of an alpine meadow as the heart-stopping challenge of a 1000-foot granite wall. He values friendships forged in the mountains more than a frightening ascent, and the company of his golden retrievers more than some bipedal animals. If you want to understand what mountains truly mean to humans, you cannot do better than A Place in Which to Search." - Mark Jenkins, contributing writer for National Geographic Magazine and the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Wyoming