From the rigours and risks of high-altitude climbing on Everest to the challenges of scaling El Captain's 3,000 vertical feet, this collection examines the subject of mountaineering through the eyes of gifted writers with great stories to tell. These stories reveal climbing's allure as well as its terrible risks. Legendary Yosemite veteran John Long recalls the joys of climbing the world's hardest rock routes in the company of friends whose boldness scares even him. Scotsmen Hamish MacInnes, Tom...
In Boone and Crockett Club's newly reprinted edition of Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies, readers will join early B&C members William T. Hornaday and John M. Phillips as they travel through the mountains in British Columbia by horseback on an expedition to collect museum specimens and to hunt for the region's various big game animals. Readers will be delighted with the 70 high-quality photographs taken more than a hundred years ago...mostly in risky and daring situations. The images complement...
At age sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and his grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,500 feet into the Grimethorpe pit - and for [pound]25, spend up to seven hours in thigh deep water, in the pitch black digging for coal. But at weekends Andy inhabited a very different world - thousands of feet above the pitheads of the colliery. Introduced to his local mountaineering club while a miner, he soon learned...
The sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley galvanized a dedicated group of rock climbers in the 1960s, who saw the nearly holdless, glacier-polished faces as the purest form of challenge. The awesome Half Dome and El Capitan were first climbed in the late 1950s, ushering in a new era of rock climbing later known as the golden age of Yosemite climbing. During this era, the climbers of the sixties developed the techniques, tools, and philosophies that made Yosemite the most influential rock climbi...
Thirty-two of the world's finest mountaineers offer essays on the art of mountain climbing, covering topics ranging from Himalayan adventures and the ethics of adventuring to ice and rock climbing.
This is the definitive guide to Mount Whitney. Its well-researched route descriptions and planning information make this a must-have resource.
Santa Barbara and Ventura (Falcon Guides Rock Climbing)
by Steve Edwards
Coverage of climbing routes and bouldering problems from Echo Cliffs to Owl Tor
Colorado Front Range Bouldering Boulder, Vol. 2 (Falcon Guides Rock Climbing)
by Bob Horan
Features Flagstaff Mountain and Eldorado Canyon in addition to numerous other boulder gardens.
Southern Sierra Rock Climbing (Falcon Guides Rock Climbing) (Regional Rock Climbing)
by Greg Vernon, Sally Moser, and David Hickey
Includes the climbs of Courtright Reservoir, Shaver Lake, Charlottes Dome, and Bubb's Creek Wall, among others.
Cowboy Skills is a fascinating, practical guide to the skills that have made the cowboy famous worldwide as both an outdoorsmen and rancher. Readers can replicate outdoor living by trying a hand at rounding up cattle, breaking horses to saddle, and living off the land. Learn key skills like: Handling a stampede Using the proper saddle and tack Proper ways to use a lasso and lariat Classic songs and lingo And much more! Whether you're an avid outdoorsman or a wannabe cowboy, Cowboy Skills is y...