Outdoor Recreation

PART IV:

PART II: In which the young Sherpa, on numerous expeditions in the high Himalayas, matures into the veteran climber; survives the hard years of the war and after; assumes the great responsibilities of a sirdar, or...

A while ago, Frank Nemits of Rome, N.Y., a loyal (and most thorough) student of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, could stand it no longer. Putting pen firmly to paper, he wrote us a letter:

Twenty-one books for the sports lover's Christmas list, hand-picked and annotated for SI readers by Saro John Riccardi of the New York Public Library

The new bicycle ageYou may not know it, but you are living in a new age of bicycling. Today there are about 22,000,000 cyclists in the U.S., roughly ten times as many as in the gay and bicycling 90s. The popularity...