[Download] Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers and Nature at Risk
♥ Joseph E. Taylor III ♥
| #1304067 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2010-10-15 | 2010-11-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.26 x6.56 x9.36l,1.59 | File Name: 0674052870 | 384 pages |
||15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| From One Who Remembers|By Published Author|As the daughter of one of the early California climbers featured in Pilgrims of the Vertical, my earliest years were spent dangling from a rope in Berkeley while the climbers practiced their belays (for falls, they used each other). Our house was climber central, as the Sunday dinners were held there, and the ropes were kept in our||Clear, original, rigorous, and convincing, Pilgrims of the Vertical is like nothing else written on the subject. It represents a huge advance in the history of climbing as a sport and lifestyle. Taylor argues that climbing was always a complex social a
Few things suggest rugged individualism as powerfully as the solitary mountaineer testing his or her mettle in the rough country. Yet the long history of wilderness sport complicates this image. In this surprising story of the premier rock-climbing venue in the United States, Pilgrims of the Vertical offers insight into the nature of wilderness adventure.
From the founding era of mountain climbing in Victorian Europe to present-day climbing g...
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