Literary Nonfiction. THE WAY TO THORONG LA celebrates John Brandi's mountain travels, beginning with a boyhood hike where he stands "in limitless sky" with his father on a granite dome in California's Sierra Nevada. "A wild delight," he called it. "An exalted connection with all that I saw." As a grown man his exaltation continues as he journeys into the "razor-sharp mesas and glittering peaks" of the American Southwest, and to the "elusive heights...