Climbing in North America
eBook - ePub

Climbing in North America

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eBook - ePub

Climbing in North America

About this book

Climbing in North America is the definitive, complete history of mountaineering in the United States and Canada, from the earliest days of the sport through the 1970s. In this climbing tribute, Chris Jones celebrates the climbers and their routes, peaks, and adventures, bringing them to life through anecdotes and historic black and white photos.


Climbing in North America is the definitive, complete history of mountaineering in the United States and Canada, from the earliest days of the sport through the 1970s. In this climbing tribute, Chris Jones celebrates the climbers and their routes, peaks,

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Publications Cited
  8. Rugged Individualists
  9. Scientists and Surveyors
  10. The Heroic Age
  11. To the Top of the Continent
  12. Conrad Kain and Albert MacCarthy
  13. Mount Alberta
  14. A Piece of Bent Iron
  15. Robert Underhill and Jack Durrance
  16. The Sierrans
  17. The Pacific Northwest and Alaska
  18. Mount Waddington
  19. Worlds Apart
  20. Hard Rock, Hard Steel
  21. The Southern Californians
  22. Ungentlemanly Behavior
  23. The North Face
  24. Mount McKinley
  25. El Capitan
  26. Layton, the Great ’Un
  27. North to the Future
  28. The Granite Crucible
  29. Into the Seventies
  30. Index