Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, this title aims to offer inspirational, informative and useful reading for climbers, mountaineers and all those interested in adventure travel. The Big Walls are the royal discipline in mountaineering terms. They embody all the things that make climbing what it is - size, scale, difficulty, exposure, remoteness, and the reduction of equipment to a minimum. Challenging walls can be found the world over: in the Himalayas, the Karakorum and the Alps for example. Here Reinhold ...
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Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, this title aims to offer inspirational, informative and useful reading for climbers, mountaineers and all those interested in adventure travel. The Big Walls are the royal discipline in mountaineering terms. They embody all the things that make climbing what it is - size, scale, difficulty, exposure, remoteness, and the reduction of equipment to a minimum. Challenging walls can be found the world over: in the Himalayas, the Karakorum and the Alps for example. Here Reinhold Messner presents detailed information on 50 walls, showing a new generation of climbers where the big challenges and remaining climbing problems may be encountered.
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Very Good in Good jacket. 4to. DJ spine tanned, edges lightly creased, particularly top edge, light crease down length of front, price sticker to inner flap. Some very light edgewear to book, else a clean and tidy copy, contents VG.
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G in G jacket. G/G. 4to. original green cloth gilt (ex-library copy with usual rsms, labels etc. to outer leaves, binding a little shaken, fore-edge thumbed). in dustwrapper (rubbed & creased with small wear to extremities, label at base of spine); pp. 144, with numerous illustrations & maps. A reading copy. [Neate M86: Includes Alpine climbs, Nanga Parbat south face, Dhaulagiri south face, Aconcagua south face. Messner, a German-speaking Italian from the South Tyrol, is the leading figure in modern mountaineering. He has climbed all of the fourteen 8000-metre peaks].
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Very Good+ in Very Good- jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Dust jacket price clipped, bottom front corner. 2" tear to outside front dust jacket at crease. Expedited or International shipping may cost more.
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F in F jacket. F/F. 4to. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper; pp. 216 (last blank), with numerous illustrations & maps. Heavy item (1.45kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy. A fully revised edition of Messner's earlier work, The Big Walls. History, Routes, Experiences (1978). [Neate M86: Includes Alpine climbs, Nanga Parbat south face, Dhaulagiri south face, Aconcagua south face. Messner, a German-speaking Italian from the South Tyrol, is the leading figure in modern mountaineering. He has climbed all of the fourteen 8000-metre peaks].
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F- in F- jacket. F-/F-. 4to. original green cloth gilt in dustwrapper (price-clipped, extremities a little rubbed); pp. 144, with numerous illustrations & maps. A near fine copy. [Neate M86: Includes Alpine climbs, Nanga Parbat south face, Dhaulagiri south face, Aconcagua south face. Messner, a German-speaking Italian from the South Tyrol, is the leading figure in modern mountaineering. He has climbed all of the fourteen 8000-metre peaks].
