Alaska

A Climbing Guide

Colby Coombs, Michael Wood

• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN: 9781594851438
• Edition: 1
• Subtopic: Travel

* Guidebook details 80 climbing routes throughout Alaska
* Includes photos, many with route overlays, topo route maps, climbing difficulty and time information, ratings, and moreAlaska mountain guides Mike Wood and Colby Coombs have teamed up to write this definitive climbing guidebook targeting the more experienced climber.This is the ultimate guidebook for every climber intending to scale the mountains of one of the nation's last best wild places. Alaska: A Climbing Guide offers climbers a range of routes in the Chugach Range, the Alaska Range, the Fairweather Range, and more. Each of the routes has been climbed, documented, checked, and double-checked by the authors to ensure accuracy and safety. Interesting personal experiences are included as are accounts of first ascents from Fred Beckey, John Krakauer, and David Roberts.

Table of contents

• Alaska: A Climbing Guide
• Title
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword by Brian Okonek
• Preface
• Introduction
• Brooks Range
• Aleutian Range
• Alaska Range
• Chugach Range
• Wrangell Mountains
• Saint Elias Range
• Fairweather Range
• Coast Range/Stikine Icecap
• Appendix A: Alaskan Mountain Grades
• Index
• About The Authors