2008 American Alpine Journal

Author : John Harlin
Publisher : American Alpine Club
ISBN 13 : 9781933056074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2008 American Alpine Journal written by John Harlin and published by American Alpine Club. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual publication recounts the year's important mountaineering summits and feats, both the dramatic successes and heartbreaking failures. With early 200 pages of exciting stories about the most important climbs of the year, as told by the climbers themselves, and nearly 300 pages of short reports from new routes in the world's mountains, it's the reference for everyone planning anything new in the mountains or venturing into remote ranges. Includes 350 b&w photographs and maps.This year's American Alpine Journal features Freddie Wilkinson and his all-star partners discovering still-unclimbed summits and awesome new routes in a remote corner of the Alaska Range. Pakistan's fabled Charakusa Valley keeps producing stunning long rock routes and jawdropping alpine test pieces, as revealed by Steve House, Nicolas Favresse, and partners. Even the Alps, where the sport began, keeps dishing out new challenges, including Miha Valic's tour de force: all 82 "official" 4,000-meter summits in a 102-day winter season.Peter Hackett reports on the latest knowledge in high-altitude physiology, while Roger Payne provides an overview of current activities and the future potential of new-routing in Sikkim. Plus more from Peru, Patagonia and Yosemite.

Author : American Alpine Club
Publisher : Amer Alpine Club
ISBN 13 : 9780930410766
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Alpine Journal written by American Alpine Club and published by Amer Alpine Club. This book was released on 1997-10-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Alpine Club
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933056081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accidents in North American Mountaineering written by American Alpine Club and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual compendium of climbing-related accidents has been relied on by climbers of all levels for more than 50 years. This edition of the handbook offers detailed reports on mountaineering accidents that occurred in the United States and Canada in 2007, ranging from Denali to Yosemite. Produced jointly by the Safety Committees of the American Alpine Club and the Alpine Club of Canada, Accidents in North American Mountaineering details what happened and analyzes what went wrong in each situation to give mountaineers the opportunity to learn from others' mistakes. "For a hair-raising read, it's hard to beat the annual Accidents in North American Mountaineering, a collection of accidents ranging from tragic to Darwinian." (Rocky Mountain News)

Author : John Harlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141653931X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eiger Obsession written by John Harlin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historic memoir by the noted Alpine climber and journalist who undertakes an epic climb of The Eiger in Switzerland—the very same mountain that not only made his father “Eiger John” famous, but killed him in 1966. In the 1960s an American named John Harlin II changed the face of Alpine climbing. Gutsy and gorgeous—he was known as “the blond god”—Harlin successfully summitted some of the most treacherous mountains in Europe. But it was the north face of the Eiger that became Harlin’s obsession. Living with his wife and two children in Leysin, Switzerland, he spent countless hours planning to climb, waiting to climb, and attempting to climb the massive vertical face. It was the Eiger direct—the direttissima—with which John Harlin was particularly obsessed. He wanted to be the first to complete it, and everyone in the Alpine world knew it. John Harlin III was nine years old when his father made another attempt on a direct ascent of the notorious Eiger. Harlin had put together a terrific team, and, despite unending storms, he was poised for the summit dash. It was the moment he had long waited for. When Harlin’s rope broke, 2,000 feet from the summit, he plummeted 4,000 feet to his death. In the shadow of tragedy, young John Harlin III came of age possessed with the very same passion for risk that drove his father. But he had also promised his mother, a beautiful and brilliant young widow, that he would not be an Alpine climber. Harlin moved from Europe to America, and, with an insatiable sense of wanderlust, he reveled in downhill skiing and rock-climbing. For years he successfully denied the clarion call of the mountain that killed his father. But in 2005, John Harlin could resist no longer. With his nine-year-old daughter, Siena—his very age at the time of his father’s death—and with an IMAX Theatre filmmaking crew watching, Harlin set off to slay the Eiger. This is an unforgettable story about fathers and sons, climbers and mountains, and dreamers who dare to challenge the earth.

Author : American Alpine Club
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780930410711
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Alpine Journal written by American Alpine Club and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1997-10-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dougald MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933056876
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Alpine Journal 2015 written by Dougald MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published annually since 1929, the American Alpine Journal is internationally renowned as the world's journal of record for major climbs of all kinds. Feature articles include the most compelling stories, told by the climbers themselves. In Climbs & Expeditions, we document the year's greatest first ascents, from Antarctica to Afghanistan, and from Patagonia to Pakistan. This year, the AAJ continues to expand its coverage of rock climbing and new routes in the United States. This includes a major story about the history, recent climbing, and new-route potential of little-known Cloud Peak in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains.

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Download or read book The American Alpine Journal Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Alpine Club
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780930410704
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book The American Alpine Journal, 1973 written by American Alpine Club and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Alpine Club
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933056418
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book 1994 American Alpine Journal written by American Alpine Club and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933056050
Total Pages : 0 pages
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