Volume 36, Number 17 · November 9, 1989
Hero of the Wilderness
By Bill McKibben
The traditional mountain-climber's reason—'Because it was there'—has always seemed witless to me. I much prefer the answer given by Enos Mills (1870–1922), who was among the most loved nature writers of the first two decades of this century and who styled himself America's first professional nature guide.
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