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Among The Clouds: Wild Weather at Mount Washington

WEDNESDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2008
Submitted By: Mariangela Silvestre

One of the mountaineering world's icons, the Mount Washington Observatory, is the setting and subject of a new book being published by Alpine Books.

Among the Clouds: Work, Wit & Wild Weather at the Mount Washington Observatory, by New Hampshire author Eric Pinder, takes readers on a literary field trip to the top of 6288-foot-high Mount Washington. A world-record 231-mph gust of wind shrieked across the summit in 1934, giving the peak its nickname: "The Home of the World's Worst Weather."

The 112-page book describes what a meteorologist's typical day is like, the sometimes harsh, sometimes spectacular world above treeline. Hurricane-force winds batter the summit in every season, and fog that the author calls "thick enough to swim in" occurs nearly 300 days a year. Snowdrifts sometimes form inside the doorway, driven through the tiniest of cracks by the howling wind.

Humorous and informative essays explain Mount Washington's extreme weather and introduce the many eccentric characters that live and visit the summit in all seasons, including Nin the cat, Marty on the Mountain, tobogganing ravens, meandering moose, and hapless hikers in need of rescuing.

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