Alpine Ski Mountaineering Western Alps: Volume 1 (Cicerone Winter And Ski Mountaineering S) Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
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 a long ski season make them a focus for mountaineers and skiers throughout the world. The Classic Haute Route, the traverse between Chamonix and Zermatt described in this guide, is without doubt the most sought after ski tour in the world but it is simply one of many high level routes the Alps has to offer. This guidebook (Vol 1 - West) brings together a selection of the finest high level ski tours in the Western Alps in areas as diverse as the ?crins, Vanoise, Haute Maurienne, Grand Paradiso, Mt Blanc, Valais and Urner Alps. The routes described will provide a lifetimes ski mountaineering for the average ski mountaineer and ensures challenges and rewards for all levels of ability.
Series: Cicerone Winter and Ski Mountaineering S
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited; 1 edition (June 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 185284373X
ISBN-13: 978-1852843731
Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 0.7 x 7 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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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 than most guides, hut caretakers, or shops will care to about the basics of any of the given areas. Certainly full of better information than days of messing about on the web will find you. Support these types of books; they are certainly more helpful and life affirming than the most recent political polemic. Plus it has lots of pictures for stoke.
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.
This is a very useful book for planning Haute Route and other fine tours in the Western Alps.
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