Ascent
Subtitle: The Climbing Experience in Word and Image
Contributors: Steve Roper (Editor); David Harris (Editor); Allen Steck (Editor)
Publisher: American Alpine Club
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780930410803
Subjects: Sports & Recreation; Mountain Climbing; Mountaineering; Pictorial works; Sports
First sentence: For hours I had been climbing alone, in the dark, cut off from the world, and the new day caught me almost by surprise--a sudden realization of color, far below, beyond the shadowed trench of the Western Cwm, where a cluster of peaks floated in golden light.