CSPRA Book Review 

Missing in the Minarets: The Search for Walter A. Starr, Jr. by William Alsup Honorary State Park Ranger   William Alsup, the pro bono attorney who helped Save Bodie! and was selected as CSPRA Honorary California State Park Ranger in 1993, has written another book. It sounds really interesting. I thought you might want to feature it on the CSPRA website.By the way, Bill Alsup is now on the bench as a Federal Court Judge. - - - - - Donna Pozzi, CSPRA Member

This riveting narrative details the mysterious disappearance of Walter 'Peter' Starr, a San Francisco attorney from a prominent family, who set off to climb alone in the rugged Minarets region of the Sierra Nevada in July 1933. Rigorous and thorough searches by some of the best climbers in the history of the range failed to locate him despite a number of promising clues.When all hope seemed gone and the last search party had left the Minarets, mountaineering legend Norman Clyde refused to give up. Climbing alone, he persevered in the face of failure, resolved that he would learn the fate of the lost man. Clyde's discovery and the events that followed make for compelling reading. This re-creation of a famous episode in the annals of the Sierra Nevada is mountaineering literature at its best. William Alsup is a photographer, attorney, Sierra historian, Honorary State Park Ranger and trial lawyer turned trial judge. He also assembled, annotated, and illustrated the 1864 letters and notes of William Brewer, published as 'Such A Landscape!' Published by the Yosemite Association. 216 pages; 6 inches x 9 inches; illustrated in black and white; case bound with dust jacket; copyright 2001, Ref. No.1-930238-08-8     Price $24.95 To order the Alsup book, "Missing In The Minarets," OnLine go to Yosemite Store, click on BOOKS, then select HISTORY BOOKS