To the Summit: 50 Mountains That Lure, Inspire and Challenge

By Joseph Poindexter

Book Overview

Introduction by Stacy Allison, the first American woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest. This wondrous large-format book, full of dramatic full-color spreads and in-depth text, takes armchair... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579120415
• ISBN13: 9781579120412
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Running Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 6.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.8" x 14.6"

Customer Reviews

a worthy compilation of world wide mountaineering

This text may well qualify as the "mother" of all coffee table books. As a matter of fact the librarian who checked it out to me remarked that by merely screwing 4 legs into this monster you could build a coffee table worthy of holding the remainder of your coffee table book collection! This book is much more than the pretty face many large format books display, there is a lot of substance worth reading between the covers. Overall a worthy compilation of world wide mountaineering. It contains many historical glimpses and a wide range of international climber bio's from 1800's to present day. Photos range in quality from excellent to grainy and underexposed. While many historical photos are included it is of course expected they would not be up to today's photo standards for clarity however many apparent recent photo selections either did not stand up to the publishing and enlargement demands or editing was compromised for packing the pages with images. Since climbing of course does not always take place in picture perfect lighting there will of course need to be representative samples to illustrate less than ideal weather conditions. Page 231 full page picture of the east face of Mt. Whitney has been reverse printed. I was distressed to find such an obvious error in printing for an otherwise incredible book I did not have the time or resources to verify all the other mountain profile photos but I might like to challenge the definition/graphic chosen for CAM. It is quite the resource...take a look for yourself.