High Sierra Climbing Volume 1

The Sierra Nevada is a world-renowned climbing destination for alpine climbing in some of the most favorable conditions of any mountain range on the planet. This close-to-comprehensive guidebook covers technical free climbs, alpine big walls, ice climbs, and selected scrambles in the High Sierra. It is the essential reference for any climber exploring the “Range of Light”. This book, Volume 1 of a three-volume series, covers peaks on and west of the crest south of Shepherd Pass and the southernmost regions of the Kern-Kaweah Divide. The following regions are included, and much, much more: Tuttle Creek & Lone Pine Peak Mount Chamberlin & Mount Hitchcock Mount Whitney Massif Mount Russell Massif The Cleaver & Mount Barnard Mount Carl Heller & Tulainyo Tower Mount Tyndall & Shepherd Pass Spring Lake Wall & the Wall Above Big Five Castle Rocks Eagle Scout & Granite Creeks   Guidebook at a glance: 312 routes 81 topos 66 overlays Full color Vignettes written by the following characters of the Sierra: Alex Honnold, Doug Robinson, John Moynier, Jesse McGahey, Ben Hatchett, Leo Pantilat, David Harden, Mark Westman, Cameron Burns Authors: Roger Putnam and Vitaliy Musiyenko Published by K. Daniels Publishing 2022