Climbing in North America
- ISBN-10
- 0520036379
- ISBN-13
- 9780520036376
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 392
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979-01-01
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Chris Jones
Description
The complete history of North American mountaineering from the early nineteenth century through the 1970s.
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