This is the mountaineering yearbook, including feature articles,
expedition reports, book reviews, obituaries, arts, history and
science.Richly illustrated, the "Alpine Journal" is the world's
principal mountaineering yearbook and essential reading for all who
love the mountains, particularly those who climb and explore in the
Greater Ranges and the Alps. This 2007 edition marks the 150th
anniversary of the world famous club.One hundred and fifty years
ago, the Alpine Club was born. It was the first mountaineering club
in the world and as this 112th volume of the "Alpine Journal" amply
demonstrates, it is still going strong.AC members have been
climbing across the globe - Simon Yates and Andy Parkin in Tierra
del Fuego, Phil Wickens leading an AC expedition in the Pamirs,
Malcolm Bass rounding off the club's extended courtship of Haizi
Shan in Sichuan, Paul Knott, making the first ascent of South
Walsh, highest unclimbed peak in North America. All these stories
are told, plus among others, Ian Parnell's eight-day ascent of
Kedar Dome's east face, and a year in the life of vagabond climber
Nick Bullock.The AC's 150th anniversary is also an occasion for
some critical reflection. Doug Scott and Ed Douglas weigh in on
ethics and money, Peter Gillman looks at scandals that have soured
climbing, and award-winning author Robert Macfarlane considers our
ambivalent response to 'the wild'.Ken Wilson, controversialist sans
pareil, provides a talking point with a table of the stand-out
climbs on the highest peaks and as a glorious reminder of 150 years
of British mountaineering's finest moments, we feature the words
and images of Gordon Stainforth's acclaimed 'The Crux'
exhibition.This is a record of notable climbs, region-by-region,
over the past year, reviews, paintings and cartoons by Andy Parkin,
150 photographs, nearly all in colour, and maps.
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