[Read free ebook] Ordeal by Piton: Writings from the Golden Age of Yosemite Climbing
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| #2076945 in Books | Stanford University Libraries | 2003-01-01 | Original language:English | 9.00 x6.00 x.50l, | File Name: 0911221263 | 289 pages |
||7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Pushing the Envelope|By Peter Renz|Climbing runs from routine to audacious. Here Steve Roper has gathers together accounts of some of the most audacious climbers and climbs ever. Yosemite in the Golden Age, as recorded by the climbers who made that age what it was.
The photographs show you the place. The accounts show you the people. Read and remember when you w
Cultural Writing. Great routes, great writing. It was a special time, this Golden Age of Yosemite climbing. Virgin walls soared 3,000 feet. Immense pinnacles had golden eagles atop them, but no cairns. The phrase "kids in a candy store" springs to mind. Excited by such possibilities, climbers who barely knew what they were up against swarmed up new routes, and then, as if to further savor their adventures, put pen to paper. Steve Roper presents fifty-four selections tha...
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