Voices from the Summit: The World's Great Mountaineers on the Future of Climbing

Author: Wade Davis - Mcdonald - SIR CHRIS BONINGTON - David Breashears - Reinhold Messner - Sir Edmund Hillary - Ed Viesturs - Greg Child - Catherine Destivelle - John (editors) - Bernadette & Amatt - Leo Houlding - Lynn Hill and Others - Editor-John Amatt; Editor-Bernadette McDonald
ISBN 10: 0792279581
ISBN 13: 9780792279587
Release: 2000-11-01
Format: Hardcover (256 pages)
List Price: $30.00
Tags: Arts & Photography, Photography, Travel,
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Book Description:
All of the biggest names in the world of mountaineering -- including many legends rarely represented in contemporary books -- have chipped in to make Voices from the Summit a very special, Who's Who-style extravaganza of unprecedented proportions. Thirty-two living icons from around the world -- including Yvon Chouinard, Wade Davis, Catherine Destivelle, Charles Houston, Doug Scott, Greg Child, Kryzstof Wielicki, Peter Croft, Silvo Karo, Ed Viesturs, Lynn Hill, Riccardo Cassin, Kitty Calhoun, and Junko Tabei -- weigh in on eleven topics crucial to the future of mountain-climbing, from Himalayan climbing and the ethics of adventuring to ice climbing and rock climbing.Each essay in this commemorative keepsake is accompanied by a specially commissioned portrait of its author. Published in conjunction with the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture on the occasion of its acclaimed film festival's twenty-fifth anniversary, Voices from the Summit is at once a thorough retrospective and a thoughtful look into the exciting future of mountaineering, where the final frontiers of this remarkable sport await the exploits of tomorrow's breed of adventurers.