[PDF.55yw] First Ascent: Pioneering Mountain Climbs

First Ascent: Pioneering Mountain Climbs

[PDF.ej63] First Ascent: Pioneering Mountain Climbs

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 | #2684819 in Books |  Firefly Books |  2008-09-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  11.00 x.88 x9.50l,3.22 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| More Than A Coffee Table Book But Lacks Focus|By Chan Joon Yee|For a coffeetable book, there is a lot to read in this book. In fact, the book describes itself as "accounts of the first to conquer the world's greatest mountains".

Holding books like this one in hand, the tendency is naturally just to look at the pictures. And the pictures are stunning. Nevertheless, a| |Trying to decipher between the thousands of first ascents is like pinning a bull's-eye on your head at a mountain guides' ice-axe throwing contest. Your choices are bound to elicit controversy. And yet Venables has likely done the trick with his latest book. C

Thrilling first-hand accounts by those who conquered the world's great mountain peaks.

First Ascent takes readers back to a time when there were many mountains yet to be climbed. Using first-hand accounts and archival photographs, it tells the exciting history of world mountaineering by describing in vivid detail the first ascents of the most daunting peaks. At the same time, it reveals the development of climbing styles and climbing technolo...

You easily download any file type for your device.First Ascent: Pioneering Mountain Climbs   |  Stephen Venables. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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