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Adamame
climber
Santa Cruz
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 6, 2011 - 12:57pm PT
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I thought I would share a few recent reads that were especially good. Hopefully others might have something else new to share.
Early Days in the Range of Light: Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers by Daniel Arnold has become one of my favorite books on the Sierra Nevada. Arnold Picked fifteen iconic Sierra Nevada peaks and recalls the first ascent, context, and first ascensionist of each and he then climbs each of the peaks in the original style. It gave me a lot of respect for the early explorers of the Sierra and inspired a slew of future ascents of said mountains.
Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers and Nature at Risk
Joseph E. Taylor III, is quite eye opening and has bombarded me with hundreds of events that have sculpted climbing in Yosemite over hundreds of years. It is quite dense, like a term paper, but it is worth the read and gives me a basis for the way Yosemite and climbing is now.
Anyone else reading anything good? Jerry Moffat, Royal Robbins, Steve House, whats the word on their new books?
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Adam
Check out our New Book, The Valley Climbers, "Yosemite's Vertical Revolution" Stories Edited by John Long, Photo's Edited by Dean Fidelman.
It's due out in December by StoneMasterPress. . .it rocks, i might add. . .df
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Adamame
climber
Santa Cruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2011 - 02:07pm PT
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Nice Bullwinkle, Looking forward to checking that out.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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This one won't be out until next June but it's a good one.
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
by Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan (Jun 11, 2012)
I edited the manuscript for cultural information and it's really well done - and accurate!
The main hero, Chhiring Dorjee, is from the Sherpa village of Rolwaling, which I have studied for 37 years now.
I will put up a separate thread about it when it hits the stores.
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wildone
climber
Troy, MT
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Anyone read Johnny Dawes new book yet? I think it's called Full of Myself, or something.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Freedom climbers:
“For many years, we in the climbing community have stood in awe of the accomplishments of Polish climbers. Relatively late into the Himalyan game due to political and monetary restrictions enforced onto them within their own country, the Poles sought the mountains as their escape. It was in fact the hardships they endured within Poland that hardened them physically and emotionally to seek out and endure the toughest climbs in the world. Freedom Climbers is a very enlightening and captivating look at the Polish climbing superstars, what drives them, their amazing accomplishments and their continuing role in pushing the limits in the mountain arena.” – Ed Viesturs, author of No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks and K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain
Highly recommended!
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Freedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonald just won the Banff Book Festival award.
Just got back from Banff. She used to organize the Banff festivals (just retired a few years ago), got to meet and know the Polish mountaineers real well from their visits to the festivals. She realized that the generation of Polish climbers that emerged from mid-70s to mid-90s were an exceptionally successful and colorful crew; her book explores tells their stories.
Pilgrims? Excellent up to 1950s. Goes in an interesting and original direction with the more recent history, but the conclusions about the more recent era are not very well supported, methinks.
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Camster (Rhymes with Hamster)
Social climber
CO
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Someone sent me a copy of Early Days in the Range of Light: Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers and I was blown away by the quality of the writing. I thought it'd be fairly boring, but was really impressed by the author's ability.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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And let us not forget that our own Crunch received the Banff Book Festival award for the Best Mountaineering History Award for Desert Towers.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Hey crunch, didja see my performance?
Did you keep your clothes on this time?
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Hey crunch, didja see my performance?
No I didn't, dammit. They had someone else there instead, reading out your cartoons. My eyesight's not so good; it could have been Johnny Dawes (in heels), though actually I suspect it was Lady Gaga, channeling Krusty the Clown.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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I have a different take on Denz. He was with the Kiwi team trying Torre Egger when we climbed it in 76. The only one in their group of 13 that was hard to get along with. Couldn't boulder very well but I take it he improved his rock climbing.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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I'll give you this- he was bold.
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Allen Hill
Social climber
CO.
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Freedom Climbers is excellent. Best mountaineering/climbing book in a long time in my opinion. And you can download for your IPad or kindle which must be a first for the genre as far as I know.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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What? That wasn't Lady Gaga? That was you?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Leaving aside Tami's proclivity for naked trampoling at Banff festivals past, and getting back on topic, I can't say enough good things about Crusher's desert towers book.
If you haven't bought it yet, you're missing something really good.
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