"Wilderness alps is an invaluable and major contribution to Northwest conservation history, reflecting the strong vision and viewpoint of its principal author, Harvey Manning, and his close ally, the late David Brower. It is lively and thoroughly human in dimension. The power of the book comes from pure passion to protect and preserve a matchless, magnificent fragment of raw nature: the wilderness alps of the North Cascades mountains."--Michael Frome, Ph.D., educator, activist, and author of the 'Battle for the Wilderness' ; 'Heal the earth, heal the soul'.