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Journalist Peter Potterfield writes about wilderness and adventure subjects for newspapers, magazines, books, and on-line publishing. As Editor & Publisher of MountainZone.com from 1996 to 2003, he developed a new kind of online adventure journalism by pioneering live reporting of Mount Everest expeditions and other real-time wilderness stories from remote locations. A highlight was the discovery by a 1999 MountainZone.com expedition of the long-lost climber, George Mallory. His work at MountainZone.com, according to The New York Times, "made a spectator sport out of Himalayan climbing.".
Potterfield is the author of six books, including the critically acclaimed In the Zone, and the Banff Book Festival winner, High Himalaya. His most recent books are Classic Hikes of the World, published by W.W. Norton, Himalayan Quest, published by National Geographic Books, and Everest, the Anthology, a collection of iconic first-hand narratives of the world’s highest peak (The Mountaineers Books). He is the author of the best-selling climbing guide to the Cascade Range, Selected Climbs in the Cascades, in two volumes, and he edited the first collection of funny climbing narratives, Over the Top, Humorous Mountaineering Tales. Potterfield is a veteran of expeditions to the far corners of the world, including a retracing of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s route to salvation on South Georgia Island.
Potterfield has made a specialty of covering mountaineering and wilderness adventure for the popular press, and he has written on these subjects for Conde Nast Traveler, Outside, Reader's Digest, Backpacker, Modern Maturity, Men’s Journal, Smithsonian Air & Space, and other publications. He was named a finalist for the National Magazine Award for General Excellence during his twelve year tenure as editor of Pacific Northwest Magazine. Potterfield is currently the editor of GreatOutdoors.com in Seattle.
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