High Sierra Climbing Volume 1

OVERVIEW

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:

AREAS COVERED

• Tuttle Creek & Lone Pine Peak
• Mt. Chamberlain & Mt. Hitchcrock
• Mt. Whitney Massif
• Mt. Russell Massif
• The Cleaver & Mt. Barnard
• Mt. Carl Heller & Tulainyo Tower
• Mt. Tyndall & Shepherd Pass
• Spring Lake Wall & the Wall Above Big Five
• Castle Rocks
• Eagle Scout & Granite Creeks

SPECIFICATIONS

• 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 and Cameron Burns