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ASCENT CALENDAR
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| Volume: |
2000 |
| By: |
Outside Magazine, David Roberts |
| Format: |
Other printed item |
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£9.37 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1565122283 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781565122284 |
| Publisher: |
WORKMAN PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 1999 |
| Description: |
Celebrate the 12 greatest mountaineering feats of the 20th century. Created by the editors of "Outside" magazine, and narrated by David Roberts, an icon of American climbing, "The Ascent" is breathtaking. It's a calendar that delivers the drama, hardship, and exhilaration of the climb. Full-color photos. Shrink-wrapped. |
| Synopsis: |
Share twelve of the greatest mountaineering feats of the twentieth century: The first ascent of the north summit of Mount McKinley inspired by a barroom wager in 1909; Herzog's legendary 1950 assault on Annapurna; Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker's unsupported 1976 climb up Changabang's near-vertical west wall -- a terrorizing spear of ice and granite; Catharine Destivelle's 1991 solo up the West Face of Petit Dru in the Alps, the finest climb ever by a woman.Created by the editors of Outside "RM," the award-winning magazine that brings together the finest adventure writing and photography, The Ascent breathtaking. Juxtaposing nature's spectacular peaks with the most obsessive, passionate mountaineers of the century, it's a calendar that captures all the drama, hardship, and exhilaration of the climb. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Workman Publishing |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |