History of the Great Mountaineering Adventures

This stunning volume highlights the best of mountaineering history with striking color photos and illuminating text

• Ardito, Stefano
• Hardcover; 304 pages; 490 color photos, 200 black-and-white photos, 8 color maps, 50 illustrations
• The Mountaineers Books; copyright 2000
• Large-format, full-color pictorials of the world's highest peaks
• A collector's book for climbers and armchair adventurers

With a blend of dramatic color photographs, historical black-and-white images and early paintings and illustrations of the world's most illustrious peaks, this large-format volume brings together the greatest adventures that have been undertaken in the mountains since the ancient Greeks made their first forays to Mount Olympus. All the biggest names in climbing and the highest mountains are here. In illustrating the adventures of such climbers as Mummery, the Duke of the Abruzzi, Bonatti, and Messner, this lavish volume also reveals that now, as always, the primary elements in any attempt on the most difficult peaks are the individual's courage, intelligence and fear.

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