Climber's Choice: The Best Climbing Writers Present Their Best Work (Hardcover, 1st)

Acknowledgments

Prologue: The Climber as Writer

Jim Perrin, Visions and Virians

John Sherman, Boulevard of the Behemoths

Stephen Venables, Tierra Del Fuego

John Gill, Two Pieces from Master of Rock: Get the Hell Off That Rock and LifeSavers

Chris Bonington, Drangnag Ri

Chuck Pratt, The South Face of Mount Watkins

Royal Robbins, Jack of Diamonds

Reg Saner, Up and Out, the Myth of Emergence

Joe Simpson, Guilty as Charged

John Long, The Bird's Boys

Paul Pritchard, Rubble Merchants, Slateheads, and Others

Pat Ament, Reflections on Being the Best Climber in the World

Greg Child, On Broad Peak

Mark Synnott, The Maestri Enigma

Tom Higgins, Soarks

Ian McNaught-Davis, The Mustagh Tower Climbed 6th July 1956

Amy Irvine, The Path of Destruction

Doug Robinson, Mountaineering Just Means Glad to Be Here: Eight Alpine Poems

Ed Webster, The Fight

Alison Osius, The Squalor and the Glory

Kurt Diemberger, Excerpt from The Endless Knot

Walter Bonatti, Concepts of Adventure

Susan Fox Rogers, Loose Woman

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