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The Adirondack High Peaks Brian H. Bix Contains some light notes fromTHE ADIRONDACK HIGH PEAKS AND THE FORTY SIXERS covers that unique area encompassing the major peaks which are located in New York State's Adirondack Park. While there are more than two thousand mountains in this region, the book deals specifically with "the forty six," those summits whose elevations start at 4,000 feet. Vignettes of the forty six, first ascents, how they were named; old time guides who climbed with "city people"; the Adirondack lean