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
