Vertical: 100 Jahre Kletterkunst
Author(s):
Messner, Reinhold
Copyright: 2002, BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, München
Specifications: 1st, 4to, pp.295, illus frontis, 72 color & 248 bw photos, 10 illus, illus eps, pictorial cloth
Condition: signed Messner & Royal Robbins, issued w/o dj, cloth very fine
A history of extreme rock climbing, primarily in the Alps, from Alfred Mummery and Emil Zsigmondy in the 1880s, through Alexander Huber in 2001. Many of the great alpinists are included – Guido Rey, Emilio Comici, Mathias Rebitsch, Guido Magnone, Joe Brown, Don Whillans, Jean-Marc Boivin, Peter Croft, and more. In German, no English translation.