Yosemite in the Sixties

by Glenn Denny and Yvon Chouinard

The sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley galvanized a dedicated group of rock climbers in the 1960s, who saw the nearly holdless, glacier-polished faces as the purest form of challenge. The awesome Half Dome and El Capitan were first climbed in the late 1950s, ushering in a new era of rock climbing later known as the golden age of Yosemite climbing. During this era, the climbers of the sixties developed the techniques, tools, and philosophies that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938340221
• ISBN13: 9781938340222
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Patagonia
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.2" x 13.0"