Best Mountaineering Travel Guides
Accommodation along the route is plentiful.The 'official' Tour du Mont Blanc follows an established route around the main block of mountains containing not only Mont Blanc but its principal allied summits. A member of the Outdoor Writers' Guild, the Alpine Club and Austrian Alpine Club, his passion for mountains and the countryside remains undiminished, and he regularly travels throughout Britain to share that enthusiasm through his lectures.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My experience is that quoted walking times would be approximately accurate for someone with good prior conditioning carrying a light pack in good weather."
"(I ended up cutting out the CCW section since we were doing CW). Overall a great resource and everyone on the TMB had this, but like most things, there can be improvements."
"A single exception: the description of the start at the top of the cable car out of Les Houches is no longer accurate, and hasn't been for at least 5 years."
"This is hands-down the definitive guide to the TMB."
"The maps in the book are fairly simple, but helpful in letting us know what kind of elevation gains we would be making and approximate walking times."
"This guide has everything you need... except the muscle... to do this amazing hike on your own."
"This book is invaluable for anyone considering walking the TMB."
"Excellent and understandable."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The meat of the book can be found in the remaining pages covering everything from, recommended equipment, mountain safety, to detailed accounts of the climbs and approaches on all the jagged peaks of the Teton Range."
"If you consider to climb anything in the Tetons, look at this book to guide you through the difficult approaches, its photos are really detailed and offer enough inside information to pinpoint your destination and the routes of ascend."
"Bought this as a gift for a friend who wanted to hike and climb the Teton Range."
"Very comprehensive and gives a great balance of general info, trail info, and approach/canyon info."
"The most thorough guidebook I've ever seen, and THE authority on mountaineering in the Tetons."
"It also has the contact information for the local guides and Park Service to help you plan your adventure."
"Clearly describes hundreds of routes with climbing topo's and ratings."
"I am not a technical climber, rather a backpacker always looking for more information about my beloved Tetons."
If you've ever dreamed of climbing Denali or Everest, or joining the even more exclusive "Seven Summiters " club, then Climbing the Seven Summits is the guidebook you need to turn your dream into reality. For each mountain you'll learn about documents and immunizations, expedition costs, training, guiding options, climbing styles, best seasons, essential gear, day-by-day itineraries, summit routes, maps showing approaches and camps, regional natural history, cultural notes, and even post-climb activities like going on safari in Africa or wine-touring in South America. And, because there remains some controversy about whether Kosciuszko in Australia or Carstenz Pyramid on the island of New Guinea is the "seventh summit," this guidebook to the Seven Summits actually covers eight mountains! He regularly leads expeditions to the mountains of the Seven Summits, among others, and has climbed all of the original Seven Summits at least four times, some as many as twenty.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm really happy he likes it and think it will be a great source for his climbing goals."
"The one negative is that I thought the author could have added more personal stories of their trip up each summit or interesting ones they'd heard."
"This is an excelent instroduction to all experiences that you will have and logistics to go out and climb the seven summits."
"As someone who is in awe of the seven summits and wishes to obtain them, this book gives great insight into each mountain."
"Gave this as a gift to my sister as we plan to climb more of the seven summits."
"I enjoyed this outline of how to climb the Seven Summits, but would have preferred to read SEVEN SUMMITS by Bass & Wells."
"He also gives information on travel routes, companies, gear, and other important information."
Best Mountain Climbing
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. Dave Barry...[Readers] may find themselves turning the pages with increasing amusement and anticipation as they discover that they're in the hands of a satirist of the first rank who writes (and walks) with Chaucerian brio.” —The New York Times Book Review.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm a sexagenarian who, on a recent vacation, happened to walk out and back on the first three miles or so of the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail (Springer Mtn, GA) and, in a fit of exhilaration, decided then and there that I would, by golly, hike the AT before I died. As I was joyfully entertained by his incisive sense of humor, I was simultaneously and seriously learning history, biology, geology (and several other -ologies) as well as being discomfitted by Bryson's documentation of our culture's dismissive practices regarding ecology."
"Read one and except for a few events, you've pretty much read them all and almost any extended backpacking trip involves the same rigors, risks, weather and that mixture of misery and exhilaration."
"One of the funniest books you will every read."
"Bill's storytelling captured me immediately...I was taking every step he took, I enjoyed every vista he looked out on, I was eavesdropping on his conversations with his fellow hikers and feeling the spectrum of emotions held for his friend and hiking companion."
"An adventure that walks you experientially and historically through the nation's longest series of trails from Georgia to Maine while feeling every fear from blisters, hunger, thirst, wildlife, climate changes, man's limitations and nature's nuances, all the while trekking with a forty pound pack on your back, and any one of these could do you in, well it's a wonder why the wild is so compelling."
"With the film in theaters, I decided to pick it up and give it a go. I loved this book, and place it among Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," Cheryl Strayed's "Wild," and Elizabeth Gilbert's "The Last American Man" in terms of well-written essays that explore our yearning to return to a simpler, untethered way of life."
"Unfortunately some of his stories about what happened to people along the trail, made me not that interested in walking any trail."
"I think Bill Bryson is an incredibly good writer whose humor extends to poking as much fun at himself as he does at others."
Best Rock Climbing
For the all-new 9th Edition, committees comprosed of active climbers and climbing educators reviewed every chapter of instruction, and discussed updates with staff from the American Alpine Club (AAC), the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE), and the Access Fund. They also worked with professional members of the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA), to review their work and ensure that the updated textbook includes the most current best practices for both alpine and rock climbing instruction. From gear selection to belay and repel techniques, from glacier travel to rope work, to safety, safety, and more safety―there is no more comprehensive and thoroughly vetted training manual for climbing than the standard set by Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, 9th Edition. Over the years, hundreds of thousands have learned outdoor safety and skills from The Mountaineers, ranging from climbing to skiing to kayaking, and much more.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book really does a great job of showing those methods and explaining why they are done in such a way."
"It covers everything from glacial travel to packing to climbing knots to setting up a pulley rescue system."
"It is still a staple when I teach rock climbing to new folks."
"One note, if you are looking for a relatively quick reference guide to certain mountaineering or alpine climbing information, this is not it."
"Great book."
"Great book with plenty of useful information to the beginner or intermediate climber."
"It has everything from high tech climbing gear to improvising with minimal equipment or just a rope, and survival."
"There is not a great deal of mountaineering, bouldering, or bill wall climbing in my future however one of the things that is needed in the volunteer work that I do is a core understanding of the basics of rock climbing if only to afford a better competency if called upon to assist in medical call-outs via radio when I'm already out in the field."