Every year there are a few new climbing books that are essential reading for the serious climber and make perfect gifts for the climber on your Holiday list.
The new book Mountain Heroes: Portraits of Adventure by Huw Lewis-Jones is that essential climbing book for 2011. The 288-page four-color book, published in the United States by FalconGuides, America's leading publisher of climbing books, celebrates a wide assortment of climbers, mountaineers, ecologists, skiers, photographers, and artists that have been inspired by mountains, peaks, and cliffs through 100 short intimate profiles and a single environmental portrait that captures the essence of each person. Also included are commentaries and essays on the mountain experience.
Mountain Heroes: Portraits of Adventure is simply breathtaking in its scope and brilliance. It's one of those solid books that you can thumb through and read whichever chapter you want and come away not only having learned something new but are also inspired for your own adventures.
Mountain Heroes: Portraits of Adventure is a Who's Who of world climbing, including a wide range of adventurers like Sir Chris Bonnington, Reinhold Messner, Fred Beckey, Steve House, Apa Sherpa, and Joe Brown. It features lots of great American climbers--Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, Norman Clyde, Galen Rowell, Steph Davis, Warren Harding, and a few others...but how could the author leave out Layton Kor and Chris Sharma?
Mountain Heroes is an impressive book that will impress anyone who receives it as a gift. Five stars and two thumbs up!
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