CLIMBING MT. WHITNEY
Peter Croft
Wynne Benti
Foreword by Glen Dawson

LOS ANGELES TIMES: "This is the book on Mt. Whitney.
Anything else is overkill."

Renown climber Peter Croft has applied his unique experience to the task of updating CLIMBING MT WHITNEY with photography by Galen Rowell, Dan Patitucci, John Moynier, Andy Selters and Glen Dawson. Though tens of thousands have ìconqueredî Whitney using CLIMBING MT WHITNEY's timeless insights culled from generations of climbers,

Peter Croft brings to this new edition his cross-country routes that circumnavigate the peak. Best known for pioneering solo wall routes and what he calls "link-ups," climbing the ridges of entire ranges in one-day, Croft received the American Alpine Club's Underhill Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mountaineering. Croft suggests how to prepare physically

to climb as fast and painlessly as possible with just the right equipment from sea level to altitude.Routes include the standard Mt. Whitney Trail; trails from other passes; tech routes up the East Face; East Buttress and Mountaineers route. Gone are outdated routes on poor quality rock. For some extra excitement, Croft has included a few routes on Mt. Russell, Whitney's neighbor to the north.

Readers of all degrees of experience will enjoy Croft's classic new take on Whitney's history like his unique insight into the great Sierra Nevada climbing pioneer Norman Clyde, who in 1931, led the first party up Whitney's East Face: "Thinking nothing of carrying 100 lbs. . . he would also saddle himself with a small library of hardback books in foreign languages, several pistols, a rifle and as many as five cameras. He was known as an eccentric which is a pretty sedate way to put it. Todayís lightweight alpinist would treat any climber with half those peculiarities like a rat chewing lunatic and give him a wide berth. Certainly the FBI would hunt down any and all persons hiding out in the backcountry with a similar arsenal of weapons."

Glen Dawson, who was on that 1931 climb with Norman Clyde, writes in the introduction for this new edition of CLIMBING MT WHITNEY:"I am notable only as an historical curiosity or perhaps as a living fossil. My career as a rock climber spanned the years 1927 to about 1938. During my lifetime I have been an antiquarian bookseller and publisher but that one event of August 16, l931 is my footnote in climbing history."

Whether taking in the fresh air from the vertical granite face of the highest peak in the contiguous United States or just walking the easy way, 22 miles and 6500' gain to its 14,496' summit, there is something for everyone in CLIMBING MT. WHITNEY.

ISBN 1-893343-14-6 $13.95 132 pages
Photography by Dan Patitucci, Galen Rowell, Andy Selters, John Moynier

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