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American Alpine Club (AAC). American Alpine Journal 1980
1980 AAC NY wraps; near fine #9420 $25.00
The American Alpine Journal (AAJ) is considered to be the best mountaineering reference journal in the world. Each issue is packed with information from Alaska to Tibet. It contains articles by well-known mountaineers from around the world, a summary of the years most important climbs and expediti[read more]
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American Alpine Club (AAC). American Alpine Journal 1980
1980 AAC NY wraps; vg #12256 $15.00
The American Alpine Journal (AAJ) is considered to be the best mountaineering reference journal in the world. Each issue is packed with information from Alaska to Tibet. It contains articles by well-known mountaineers from around the world, a summary of the years most important climbs and expediti[read more]
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American Alpine Club (AAC). American Alpine Journal 1981
1981 AAC NY wraps; vg+ #11152 $25.00
The American Alpine Journal (AAJ) is considered to be the best mountaineering reference journal in the world. Each issue is packed with information from Alaska to Tibet. It contains articles by well-known mountaineers from around the world, a summary of the years most important climbs and expediti[read more]
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American Alpine Club (AAC). American Alpine Journal 1983
1983 AAC NY wraps; vg+ #11153 $25.00
The American Alpine Journal (AAJ) is considered to be the best mountaineering reference journal in the world. Each issue is packed with information from Alaska to Tibet. It contains articles by well-known mountaineers from around the world, a summary of the years most important climbs and expediti[read more]
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American Alpine Club (AAC). American Alpine Journal 1985
1985 AAC NY wraps; fine #9423 $25.00
The American Alpine Journal (AAJ) is considered to be the best mountaineering reference journal in the world. Each issue is packed with information from Alaska to Tibet. It contains articles by well-known mountaineers from around the world, a summary of the years most important climbs and expediti[read more]
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American Alpine Club (AAC). American Alpine Journal 1986
1986 AAC NY wraps; fine #9424 $25.00
The American Alpine Journal (AAJ) is considered to be the best mountaineering reference journal in the world. Each issue is packed with information from Alaska to Tibet. It contains articles by well-known mountaineers from around the world, a summary of the years most important climbs and expediti[read more]
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American Polar Society The Polar Times - Fall-Winter 2001, vol 2, #18
2001 American Polar Society US 4to, pp.31, 1 color centerfold & many bw photos, illus, maps, wraps; new #22363 $4.00
A great resource for those interested in Arctic and Antarctic exploration, history, research, and current events. This is published twice yearly.[read more]
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Ascent: The Best of Ascent: Twenty Five Years of the Mountaineering Experience
1993 Sierra Club SF 1st, 8vo, pp.xiv, 384, frontis, 19 bw photos, appendices, blue cloth; dj fine, cloth fine #10050 $25.00
Some of the best from Ascent. Includes fiction and non-fiction by Galen Rowell, Warren Harding, Royal Robbins, Kitty Calhoun Grissom, Terry Gifford, David Roberts, and others.
Ascent was published annually as the mountaineering journal of the Sierra Club, under the primary editorship of Alan Ste[read more]
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Ascent: Sierra Club Mountaineering Journal Ascent 1967 Vol 1, #1
May 1967 4to, pp.48, bw photos, wraps; light rubbing, near fine #23198 $125.00
This first issue is the hardest to find. In this issue:
- Ascent of Hummingbird Ridge, Mount Logan by Allen Steck
- Pens Over Everest by Bernard Hollowood
- American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition by William Long
- A Visitor to Yosemite by Ian Howell
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Ascent: Sierra Club Mountaineering Journal Ascent 1973 Vol 2, #1
July 1973 4to, pp.64, bw photos, wraps; fine #23201 $29.00
In this issue:
- Mirror Mirror by Ed Drummond
- West Side Story by Greg Donaldson
- First on Alberta by Chris Jones & Jean Weber
- Canadian Faces in Winter, Photos by Jim Stuart
- The North Face of Alberta by George Lowe
- The Taurus Mountains of Tu
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New  Bryce, Robert M. Dr. Cook and the Yahgan Dictionary (Polar Priorities Special Supplement)
1994 Cook Society Hurleyville v.14, 4to, pp.12, 4 bw figures, errata sheet, wraps; signed, new #9049 $6.95
Dr. Frederick Cook served as surgeon for Adrien de Gerlache’s Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897-99). Prior to the expedition reaching Antarctica it stopped in Tierra del Fuego where Cook met Rev. Thomas Bridges. Bridges had spent 25 years among the Onas and Yahgans, two tribes of Tierra del Fuego, [read more]
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Cook, Frederick A. Polar Priorities: The Annual Publication of the Frederick A. Cook Society
1997 Sept Cook Society Hurleyville 4to, pp.48, bw photos, illus, maps, wraps; new #15225 $7.00
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Cook, Frederick A. Polar Priorities: The Annual Publication of the Frederick A. Cook Society
2002 Sept Cook Society Hurleyville 4to, pp.62, bw photos, illus, maps, wraps; new #22921 $7.00
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Cook, Frederick A. Polar Priorities: The Annual Publication of the Frederick A. Cook Society
1998 Sept Cook Society Hurleyville 4to, pp.64, bw photos, illus, maps, wraps; new #15226 $7.00
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Cook, Frederick A. Polar Priorities: The Annual Publication of the Frederick A. Cook Society
2001 Sept Cook Society Hurleyville 4to, pp.52, bw photos, illus, maps, wraps; new #22523 $7.00
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New Cook, Frederick A. Polar Priorities: The Annual Publication of the Frederick A. Cook Society - The "Fake Peak" Serials 1910-1998
1998 Supplement Cook Society Hurleyville 4to, pp.16, 12 bw photos, 3 maps, wraps; new #17407 $5.99
This Special Supplement to the pro-Cook controversy regarding Frederick Cook’s claimed ascent of Mt. McKinley/Denali takes to task Robert Bryce, Dennis Rawlins, and Bradford Washburn who have all claimed that Cook did not make the first ascent of Denali. The six articles are:
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Field, William O., Jr. Glacier Recession in Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay, Alaska
July 1947 Geographical Review 1st, 8vo, pp.369-399, 32 bw photos, lg color fldg map, wraps; entire issue, chipped top/bottom spine, map w/ orig folds & no tears, vg- #27274 $19.00
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Himalayan Club The Himalayan Journal 2010 (Vol. 66)
2010 Oxford Univ Press Delhi 1st, 8vo, pp.319, color & bw photos, maps, wraps; new #26647 $51.95
The Himalayan Journal (1929 – present) is an excellent resource to supplement other journals. Accounts are provided of smaller expeditions not covered elsewhere as well as major expedition accounts from other member’s perspectives.[read more]
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Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research Mountain World 1953
1953 Harper NY 1st, 8vo, pp.220, 60 bw photos (2 fldg), fldg photo, 12 maps/sketches, brown cloth; cloth very good+ #9932 $15.00
Majority of the book devoted to the 1952 Swiss Everest expedition. Also includes mountaineering in Bolivia, Peru, Greenland, and a great 41” separate photo panorama of the Khumbu Glacier, stretching from Taweche to Nuptse, by André Roch, worth framing. This is the first of a great series of ten volu[read more]
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Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research Mountain World 1954
1954 Harper NY 8vo, pp.224, 55 bw photos (6 fldg), 12 maps/sketches, brown cloth; dj rubbed, chipped, vg, cloth w/ inscription, near fine #9936 $29.00 $24.00
Includes first ascents of Everest, Nun Kun, and Nanga Parbat and the American attempt on K2. Neate j78, SB S62, see Yak S113.
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