2007 American Alpine Journal
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Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781933056050
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Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 2007
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Alpine Club
Publisher: Mountianeers Books
Published: 2007-08
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ISBN-13: 9781933056050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Harlin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-03-06
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 141653931X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Mountianeers Books
Published: 2007-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781933056067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides summary accounts of mountaineering accidents reported in 2006, arranged by province and state, followed by statistical tables and a listing of mountain rescue units in North America.
Author: Stephen Goodwin
Publisher: Alpine Journal
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780956930910
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mountaineering. Articles on expeditions, environment and cultural issues, all mountain related. Reviews, obituaries and new route reports worldwide. Annual journal of the Alpine Club, published since 1863.
Author: American Alpine Club
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
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Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781933056418
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Publisher: The American Alpine Club
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781933056753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dougald MacDonald
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Published: 2015-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781933056876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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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Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
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Total Pages: 882
ISBN-13: 9781933056494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This special anniversary collection includes the 100 biggest accomplishments of American mountaineers, the most important voice in American climbing, the best books by American climbers and more. Climbers of 2001's hottest new routes includes Kenton Cool, Jonathan Copp, Stefan Glowacz, Alex and Tom Huber, Stephen Koch, Tim O'Neill, Dean Potter, Marko Preselj, Mark Richey, Raphael Slawinski, and more.