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Looking for book recommendations

Postby Pierre » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:36 pm

What books should every climber have in their collection?

I currently have 7th Editon of "The Freedom of the Hiils", "Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills" , and "How to Rock Climb by JL"

Is there any others How to books worth getting? Any other must have books?

Also looking for recommedations on Adventure and Biography-Adventure books?

Your input is greatly appreciated!
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Postby granite_grrl » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:40 pm

The Rock Warrior's Way for sure!!!

Common, everybody's reading it.....
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Postby martha » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:40 pm

any of the 'How to' Falcon Guides are great...

how to .. advanced anchors
how to .. knots
how to .. ice climb
how to .. advanced rock climbing
how to .. climb 5.12

The anchor one in particular is very good.
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Postby granite_grrl » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:50 pm

Oh, I also have: Climbing: Training for Peak Performance by Clyde Soles. I think this book is done well, it looks at nutrition, cross training, weight training etc. Most of the books covers how to get into shape for the kind of climbing (or climbing trip) that you're interested in.

Novels that I have are: Touching the Void (a classic), K2 by Heidi Howkins and Annapurna: A Woman's Place. All three books are very different, but I enjoyed them all.
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Postby Pierre » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:55 pm

Thanks for the list Martha

I liked the content in "How to Rock Climb by JL" but I found the images/illustrations a little dark making it difficult to see detail are the rest of the Falcon Press books like this?

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Postby Pierre » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:58 pm

Thanks for the list of novels granite_grrl I will keep them in mind.
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Postby The Mitt » Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:12 pm

A great book for every climber who goes outside, is Self Rescue. It is the basics of getting yourself out of bad situations. I also still read through Climbing anchors.

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Postby martha » Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:28 pm

aww poop...I meant to put the self rescue book on my list too. dang forgetfulness...

as for novels.. 'Where the mountain cast's it's shadow - Maria Cofey' is an excellent book.

And...for training, Heather Sagar's book 'Climbing your best' is really really good.


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Postby Fred » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:42 pm

"Climbing in Welsford NB" :wink:
I want to go to hell... there's probably lots of rock to climb there.
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Postby Pierre » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:54 pm

"Climbing in Welsford NB" - I have that book, thanks Fred for the time and effort you put into it. I found the guide well laid out and was priced reasonably. While I'm giving you praise for your guide book, I should also praise you for the good work you've done on setting up and running this forum.

Funny thing is I've been up to Welsford more times before I owned the guide... I need to get up there more often. Was only up there once last year!

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Postby Fred » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:04 pm

well I can't take much credit for that guidebook. it was my predecessors' hard work that went into it. I simply compiled it and released the latest version. I'm hoping to add more improvements though with the next edition.

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Postby Richard Eh! » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:11 pm

Self Rescue - David Fasulo
How to Ice Climb - Craig Lubben
Climbing Anchors - John Long
More Climbing Anchors - John Long & Bob Gaines

And for "light reading" - Left for Dead - Beck Weathers
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Postby jnnfr » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:43 pm

Ooh, I bet that would be a good one, the one by Beck Weathers. I read the John Krakauer book about that trip to Everest. I'm reading another one of his books now, "Into the Wild". It seems pretty good so far.
And I just finished the book "Between a Rock and a Hard Place", about that guy who was stuck in the canyon for 6 days before cutting his own arm off. I never saw the TV documentary, so it made the book more interesting. It was pretty amazing, what he managed to do.
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Postby Mountain_Marc » Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:52 pm

You need to get the only book that matters.

Kiss or Kill by Mark Twight

Greatest climbing book ever!
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Postby mike » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:09 pm

Kiss or Kill- I'll look that up.

Extreme Alpinism- Mark Twight also
Snow Spider- about the first ascent of Eiger N. Face
Any Canadian Alpine Journal
The Ascent of Rumdoodle- W.E. Bowman -a farce about high altitude, seige tactic, mountaineering
Secret Mountain- Chris Bonnington- 700M unclimbed peak in Tibet
Crystal Horizon- Reinhold Messner- Solo up Everest (all his books are not bad)
Seven Summits- Dick Bass
The book about Shackleton and his antarctic misadventure
Death on the Ice- Carrie Brown- Seal hunt accident in NF- book about strong human spirit in the face of adversity
Alaskan Ascents- Alpine journal style stories (David- where's my book?)

Other, non related, good books: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Vernon God Little, Jim Giraffe
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Postby The Mitt » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:42 pm

And don't forget my favorite, .... The curious George series, this one time he was told to dress the Turkey... I digress.

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Postby dcentral » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:49 pm

Facing Up - Bear Grylls

It's a bit preachy for my taste -- he really likes religon. It's still really interesting nonetheless.

He was the youngest Brit to climb Everest at 23 and its about his climb. Before he climb everest he suffered a a serious neck injury on a parachuting exercise for the army.

He also has another book called Facing the frozen ocean which is about his expedition from Halifax - Labradour - Greenland - Iceland - Scotland in a open semi-ridged inflatable hull boat. Basically a custom Zodiac with four other guys. It's pretty crazy tale too.
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Postby Mountain_Marc » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:41 pm

Free Spirit by Reinhold Messner and Above the Clouds by Anatoli Boukreev are also very good.
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Postby Graham » Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:29 am

in terms of adventure/essay books, I'd highly reccomend The Games Climbers Play and Canadian Mountaineering Anthology. Both are great for when you just want a quick shot of adventure or a variety of views without having to read a whole book.
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Postby granite_grrl » Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:08 pm

Graham wrote: Canadian Mountaineering Anthology


I just got this one for xmas, glad that its recomended. I'll probably start reading it next week.
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Postby Graham » Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:44 pm

Some pretty awsome stories in there. Man some of those guys were properly hard!
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Postby szymiec » Sat May 06, 2006 6:51 pm

Basic Rock Craft (Royal Robbins)
Extreme Alpinism (Twight)
Self Rescue(How to:)
The Avalanche Handbook(McClung)

Above the Clouds (Boukreev)
Free Spirit (Messner)
Annapurna(herzog)

American Alpine Journal
Canadian Alpine Journal
Alpinist

Bagavad Gita

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Postby Brad » Thu May 18, 2006 12:34 am

I am glad to see Alpinist made it that is a great magazine/book. not to much how to but great never the less. for how to FOTH 7th combined with other books will suit you. I bought the 7th edition just for the cover photo, it is nice to see that shot, brings me back there every time. if you ever ice climb the ice and mixed book By Will Gadd is great as is the book done by Sean Issac (from Saint John NB) Also a beefy collection of guide books will keep the fever alive. The Petzl catalog has a great technical section at the end of it and is highly reconmedned. it is even on the ACMG list of reconmended reading
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Postby Nate » Sat May 20, 2006 8:34 am

I heard 'Bradshaw's Mountianeering'. Has anybody else other than Stevo, seen that book? Good reading...... :lol:
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Postby Ken P » Sat May 20, 2006 10:05 am

"Voices from the Summit," makes a nice coffee table book along with a great read. About 20 bucks in the bargain section at Chapters.
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