Anyone who wants to know about North America’s mountaineers--from the Native Americans and the early pioneers to the modern super-climbers of today--will find this book to be an enlightening narrative, a definitive resource, and a great read.

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• Conceptually innovative structure based on the four stages of mountaineering--summiting, technical mountaineering, style simplification, and athletic achievement.

• Personalities, anecdotes, trends, legends, discoveries and the peaks themselves woven into 14 concise chapters that tell the big picture of how the game of mountaineering has evolved.

• Classic photographs and illustrations bring every section to graphic life. Many images are from the first ascents of our most important routes, including many never published before.

• Each chapter concludes with the legacy routes of that period, descriptions and advice for the modern climber.

• Dual forewords by Peter Croft and Barry Blanchard

• Soft cover, 334 pages, with 353 photographs from every decade and every segment of the continent

• Published by The American Alpine Club, in partnership with The Alpine Club of Canada

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