In 1958 Robert Monroe found himself leaving his physical body to travel via a "second body" to far locales. Here he reveals a myriad of ways the spirit might manifest in daily life.

"This then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the Canadian Rockies in their entirety — no single volume will ever do that — but including many of the finest things. It is also a book of mountain travel, under conditions such as perhaps the European traveller experienced in the Alps during the Eighteenth Century. Finally, it is a book of mountain history; for here is Geography in the making, and with a tradition behind it — a story that has never been properly gathered together...