“Belay on! Time to get on Tahoma again! Not just Little Tahoma, The — whole magnificent — Mountain! Here’s the cover of the best and most comprehensive book we’ve seen in years about Tahoma, — it’s loaded. The comprehensiveness of Antonelis-Lapp’s labor of love is astounding.”
“Mount Rainier towers above its surroundings. The 360-degree view from its summit is stunning, encompassing Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains to the west, Mount Baker far to the north, the Columbia River country to the east, spreading south toward Mount Adams, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Hood down in Oregon. I saw all of this on a perfectly clear summit day and having done so makes me appreciate the approach Jeff Antonelis-Lapp takes in this book.”
“Traveling with binoculars, notebook and field guide, Jeff Antonelis-Lapp spent countless hours in direct observation and study of Mount Rainier. He joined park archaeologists at an excavation site, assisted a master weaver harvest cedar bark, and helped a research crew snare an elusive Northern spotted owl. Tahoma and Its People was a 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist.”
“An inherently interesting, impressively informative, exceptionally well written, organized and presented work of seminal scholarship… extraordinary and unreservedly recommended…”
“…introduces very well the complex natural and human histories of this amazing place. I gained new insights and understanding of northwest mountains and the rivers they spawn while appreciating the selection of material he chose to include in the book. There is so much!”