Consists of 16 essays about mountain climbing in the Adirondacks by the Adirondack Forty-Sixers, plus 19 color photos called "Pictures of the Present" and 22 b/w photos called "Pictures of the Past". This is a successor book to "The Adirondack Forty-Sixers" (1958) and to "The Adirondack High Peaks and the Forty-Sixers" (1970).