View David Roberts. English. Original watercolor painting. Alcantara Bridge Toledo. Panoramic landscape painting of the bridge. Signed and dated lower right. Framed under glass. Inscribed on mat.

David Roberts, Who Turned Adventure Writing Into Art, Dies at 78 He was an accomplished mountain climber with a literary gift to match, and the author of dozens of books.

One of the nation's premiere mountaineers, David Roberts had lived by his pen for some four decades since he stopped teaching at Hampshire College, where he founded the outdoors program.

The lonely iceman celebrated in David Roberts’s new book is Australian explorer Douglas Mawson, who in January 1913 performed the kind of feats today associated with Cirque du Soleil ...