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 PeakMount Chamberlin & Mount HitchcockMount Whitney MassifMount Russell MassifThe Cleaver & Mount BarnardMount Carl Heller & Tulainyo TowerMount Tyndall & Shepherd PassSpring Lake Wall & the Wall Above Big FiveCastle RocksEagle Scout & Granite Creeks   Guidebook at a glance:312 routes81 topos66 overlaysFull color Vignettes written by the follow