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This category is for books (fiction and non-fiction) whose primary topic is climbing or mountaineering. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Swenson is known for his big-mountain climbing expeditions to the Karakoram range, [2] about which he wrote the book Karakoram: Climbing Through the Kashmir Conflict, published by Mountaineers Books. Swenson has taken part in over 15 expeditions to the area.
Bonnie Prudden (née Ruth Alice Prudden; January 29, 1914 – December 11, 2011) was an American physical fitness pioneer, rock climber and mountaineer.Her report to Eisenhower on the unfitness of American children as compared with their European counterparts led to the formation of the President's Council on Youth Fitness.
Topo image of the cliff Toix Est in Costa Blanca in Spain, by climber Chris Craggs from a Rockfax guidebook. Before discussing individual routes, a climbing guidebook will outline the history and current status of climbing ethics applicable for the location including for example whether the use of bolts for sport climbing is allowed, and other local customs (e.g. use if non-clean aid climbing ...
UPL's best known initiative is the Road to Bangladesh series, initiated in the early 1990s, which is an ongoing book series on Bangladesh Liberation War to portray different perspectives on the event. The level of accuracy and expertise of the books in this series have made them highly valued among scholars. [2]
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The book grew out of the annual climbing course run since 1935 by the Mountaineers, for which the reading material was originally a combination of European works and lecturers' mimeo outlines. These were assembled into the Climber's Notebook and published by the Mountaineers as the hardbound Mountaineers Handbook in 1948.
John Gill, performing a dynamic move at Pennyrile Forest, KY in the mid-1960s.. John Gill began mountain and rock climbing in 1953 as a traditional climber.By the mid-1950s he had begun to specialize in very short, acrobatic routes on outcrops and boulders, establishing problems in the 1950s and early 1960s considerably harder than those existing at the time.