The Mountain Encyclopedia: An A‐Z Compendium of More than 2,300 Terms, Concepts and Ideas

Any insider in the mountaineering world will love this book. It is written by physicist (Hartemann) and an information media specialist (Hauptman) who are also active mountaineers: they know many of the peaks included and they know the business of climbing. As a result, the encyclopedia has a rough‐hewn authority about it, a love of heroic achievement, and more than a bibliographer's love for (and critical eye for) major figures (like Messner and Harrer, Boukreev and Tenzing) and writers on mountaineering. This will go directly into any self‐respecting reference and personal collection on the subject, and will sell well as...