Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs
By (Author) Barry Blanchard
Patagonia Books
Patagonia Books
2nd January 2012
United States
General
Non Fiction
796.522
Commended for Banff Mountain Book 2012 (Canada)
Hardback
336
Width 238mm, Height 336mm
2282g
Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs is the culmination of a 70-year career of first ascents and features compelling writing about the mountains and mountain life. Includes route tips, natural history, and climbing lore. Filled with hand-drawn climbing topos, photos, narrative description, side notes and 40 extra climbs of note in each of the eight geographical regions.
Fred Beckey is an audacious living legend who is responsible for more first ascents (over a 70-year span) than any other climber in North America. He is also the leading chronicler of the mountains of the Pacific Northwest; his guidebooks for the Cascades remain the standard. Expert in the geology, natural and social history of the mountain places he loves, Beckey is one of the great travel writers of any age. Now in his eighties - and still climbing - he is revered throughout the North American climbing community as the "original dirtbag."