Starlight and Storm: The Ascent of Six Great North Faces of the Alps

Gaston Rébuffat

Sports & Outdoors

Oxford University Press

Dust jacket notes: "On Ice and Snow and Rock is a remarkable book in every respect. Its author is climber Gaston Rébuffat, perhaps the most famous Alpinist of our time. The text is clear, authoritative, immensely comprehensive. The illustrations - 58 photographs of breathtaking colour and nearly 200 in black and white, together with numerous line drawings - must be among the finest, the most incredible, ever collected in a mountaineering book. It is not primarily aimed at the top-flight performer so much as at the beginner and the man beginning to improve. It will give him pointers on technique - the technique that Rébuffat himself applies in his own climbs. There are many pages of useful rules, hints and advice on every aspect of the sport - on equipment and clothing, roping together, bivouacking, climbing techniques for various surfaces and under different conditions. Finally, and making it more even than this, it conveys one man's attitude of mind and soul, an approach to climbing and mountains, an initiation into the rare world between earth and sky. It will lead the beginner into this world of silence and of rapture which, in Rébuffat's own words, 'one can only enter with joy and respect': for the man who knows his mountains already, it will provide a great refreshment of spirit."

On Ice and Snow and Rock

Mountaineering

Classic routes on France's "white mountain." Spectacular photos and detailed appendix.

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Europe

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Kaye & Ward

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Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Men and the Matterhorn

Classic routes on France's white mountain. Spectacular photos and detailed appendix.

Mont Blanc Massif: The 100 Finest Routes

Diadem Books

Mont Blanc Massif : The 100 Finest Routes

Baton Wicks Pubns Tld

This book includes descriptions of the 100 finest alpine climbs in the Mont Blanc Massif, the most important and demanding alpine training area in the world. This is a new, revised edition of the 2002 reprint (1898573034). The Mont Blanc Massif is famed as the world's finest and most accessible alpine climbing area. Rebuffat's presentation of its hundred finest climbs, and his shrewd yet inspiring commentary makes this book the ideal alpine primer. It presents a full range of possibilities from short, easy and scenic routes, classic climbs to all the main summits, and a series of grandes courses (the most testing and committing routes) that call for the highest levels of skill and judgement. This is the place where ambitious alpinists perfect their skills before tackling the greater ranges and the world's highest peaks, and where modest alpinists finally get to tackle the highest massif in Western Europe. This new edition reflects modern equipment developments and grading, and the new problems created by glacial retreat (hastened by global warming). An alternative route is added to replace the celebrated Bonatti Pillar of the Dru that collapsed in June 2005 - also, probably, an event brought on by climate change. The book remains as popular as ever, 20 years after the author's death - clear proof of its enduring relevance.

The Mont Blanc Massif

Cordee

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