Also from Robert Birkby

Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest, and a Life Lived on High

To read reviews in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Rock & Ice Magazine, click here.

 

Available online at:
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amazon.com
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booksamillion.com
indiebound.org
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Robert Birkby brings a lifetime of outdoor experience to books energized with first-hand knowledge.

Author of Mountain Madness, Lightly on the Land, and The Boy Scout Handbook, his subjects are the people, places, and skills of the outdoors.

For:

• Speaking engagements
• Writing projects
• Trail design consulting and skills training
• World-wide adventure travel

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New! The Boy Scout Handbook, Centennial Edition
The national office of the Boy Scouts of America has announced the publication of the 12th edition of the Boy Scout Handbook, written by Robert Birkby.

This is the third time the BSA has entrusted him to be the Handbook's author. (The 10th edition in 1990, the 11th in 1998.)

"The Handbook — like our organization — adopts new and modern methods while maintaining the message of preparedness, responsibility and self-reliance," said Boy Scouts of America Chief Scout Executive Robert Mazzuca.

The Boy Scout Handbook has sold more than 40 million copies since its first
printing in 1910, making it one of America's best known books.

The 12th edition is available in Scout shops across the country and online at
www.scoutstuff.org.

Visit the Handbook website at: www.bsahandbook.org.

Read about Bob's writing of the Handbook in Scouting Magazine at:
www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0909/a-handbook.html

And in the Omaha World-Herald:
Omaha.com - The Omaha World-Herald: Metro/Region - Living life by the book-->

The annual Wilderness Risk Management Conference brings together hundreds of outdoor professionals to explore the safety challenges of backcountry adventures.

As keynote speaker, Bob will draw on his four decades of field experience and his firsthand knowledge of the risk management strategies ranging from those of the Boy Scouts of America to the world's elite mountain guides. His speech explores the often dramatic evolution of risk acceptance and management over the last hundred years and suggests intelligent ways for the industry to prepare for the future. For a schedule and more information please visit the NOLS weblog.

Read more about Bob's speech at:
http://thesca.org/newsroom/bob-birkby

 

Mountain Madness a finalist at the Banff Mountain Book Festival

Mountain Madness, was a finalist in the competition at recent Banff Mountain Book Festival. To read about Bob's adventures at the festival and the fellow writers and outdoor experts he found there, click here.