Alpine Mountaineering - Essential Knowledge for Budding Alpinists

The ultimate Mont Blanc Massif tick list! This new edition of this ever popular book reflects the changes in equipment, developments in grading and new problems created by glacial retreat (hastened by global warming). The 100 routes featured are still regarded as bench marks against which any aspiring alpinist can test themselves - a fantastic testament to its author and proof of its enduring relevance.

A new guide covering the Cerces and Queyras and the first of its kind to this area - 344 routes are described including straight-forward snow 'plods', mixed climbs of all grades and the classic mountaineering routes of the area; the guide also describes the ski-mountaineering available in the area.

A guide to the Mont Blanc Massif decribing 67 routes, rock, ice and mixed, in the middle grades (up to F6a). The guide is fully illustrated throughout with both full colour photo-topos and excellent hand-drawn topos, it is packed with great action shots and has a good selection of approach and over-view maps.