High and Wild transports us to a world of granite spires, sheer walls, and snow-corniced ridges; of white-outs and alpenglow; of remote, lush valleys and artic amphitheters. It is a world where not human beings but the eagle and the mountain goat are fittest to survive, one where he highway may be a primeval glacier and "home" a precarious bivouac on a storm-battered cliff.