Fifty years ago, Dick Culbert made the Best Seller list...
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| The Province, 24 July 1970, page 38. |
The Sensuous Woman by "J".
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) by David Reuben.
Human Sexual Inadequecies [sic] by Masters and Johnson.
So how did a book about mountain climbing manage to attract the attention of a nation obsessed with sex?
Dick Culbert's A Climber's Guide to the Coastal Ranges of British Columbia is considered a mountaineering classic. The book covers the entire Canadian west coast between the States of Washington and Alaska, an distance of 500 miles. Considered to be the authoritative guide to coastal mountaineering, the book had a tremendous influence on mountaineers.
If you missed my post about legendary mountaineer, explorer, geographer, geophysicist, Doctor of Philosophy, author, poet, and photographer Richard Revis "Dick" Culbert, click here.
Richard Revis "Dick" Culbert's Family Tree:
Ancestors:
John Culbert & Mary Ward (great-great-grandparents)
Richard Culbert & Jane Fairhall (great-grandparents)
George Arthur Culbert & Jean McLeod Campbell (grandparents)
Frederick Campbell Culbert & Margaret Rachel Sanders (parents)
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