Books : Alpine Ski Mountaineering: Western Alps (Cicerone Winter and Ski Mountaineering)
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by: Bill O'Connor
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781852843731
ISBN: 185284373X
Label: Cicerone Press
Manufacturer: Cicerone Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2003-08
Publisher: Cicerone Press
Sales Rank: 321891
Studio: Cicerone Press
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Product Description:
The European Alps offer some of the finest and most accessible ski mountaineering in the world. A combination of magnificent and varied terrain, an enviable snow record, excellent public transport, unrivalled hut system and long ski season make them a focus for mountaineers and skiers throughout the world. This first volume of the 'Ski Mountaineering' series describes The 'Classic Haute Route', the traverse between Chamonix and Zermatt, and also brings together a selection of the finest high-level ski tours in the Western Alps in areas as diverse as the Ecrins, Vanoise, Haute Maurienne, Gran Paradiso, Mt. Blanc, Valais and Urner Alps. Volume 2 covers the Central and Eastern Alps. The routes described will provide a lifetimes ski mountaineering for the average ski mountaineer, with rewards and challenges for all levels of ability.
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Rating: - A Best of the Alps Guidebook
This and it's companion are the best English language guidebooks currently published to longer ski tours about the Alps. Remember, there are hundreds of other routes out there.
Rating: - Great overview of Western Alps Ski Routes
Obviously not all can be encompassed within a volume the size of this book, but with the addition of topo maps(and obviously all your hard gear, experience prep, and exercise), i can imagine very little else needed to travel extensively within the areas discribed. It covers routes from as far West as Le Meije, Chamonix, to Verbier,Monte Rosa and Saas Fee eastward. The other volume covers everything East and North of here. For those planning a trip to the area, this book can answer more questions ... Read More
Rating: - A very Good Ski Touring Guidebook
This is a very useful book for planning Haute Route and other fine tours in the Western Alps.
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