Fifty Places to Rock Climb Before You Die

Santella Chris Santella

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The author of the bestselling Fifty Places series returns with a globe-trotting guide to the best and most beautiful places to rock climb around the world Fifty Places to Rock Climb Before You Die is a beautifully illustrated guide to some of the greatest rock-climbing locations around the world, as recommended by expert climbers. The book will cover three types of climbing-trad, sport, and bouldering-and will showcase breathtaking venues from Joshua Tree to Jeju, South Korea. Featuring insights from industry insiders, including employees from rock-climbing gear companies like Petzl and Black Diamond Equipment, professional climbers like Jon Cardwell and Kevin Jorgeson (co-star of Dawn Wall), filmmaker Michael Call, and Climbing magazine editor Matt Samet, Fifty Places to Rock Climb Before You Die is the essential travel companion for climbers of all levels of expertise.FEATURED LOCATIONSUnited StatesHorse Pens 40, AlabamaCochise Stronghold, ArizonaBishop, CaliforniaJoshua Tree National Park, CaliforniaYosemite National Park, CaliforniaBlack Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, ColoradoRifle, ColoradoCity of Rocks, IdahoElephant's Perch, IdahoArco, ItalyRed River Gorge, KentuckyAcadia National Park, MaineBaxter State Park, MaineRed Rock, NevadaNorth Conway, New HampshireThe Shawangunks, New YorkWichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, OklahomaSmith Rock, OregonHueco Tanks State Park, TexasMaple Canyon, UtahMoab, UtahZion National Park, UtahNorth Cascades, WashingtonNew River Gorge, West VirginiaSeneca Rocks, West VirginiaDevil's Lake, WisconsinDevils Tower, WyomingGrand Teton National Park, Wyoming CanadaBow Valley, AlbertaThe Bugaboos, British ColumbiaSquamish, British ColumbiaLion's Head, OntarioInternationalFrey, ArgentinaMount Arapiles, AustraliaInnsbruck, AustriaLiming, ChinaLake District National Park, EnglandChamonix, FranceFontainebleau, FranceFrankenjura, GermanyKalymnos, GreeceCastle Hill, New ZealandEl Potrero Chico, MexicoBled, SloveniaRocklands, South AfricaGyeonggi-do/Jeju, South KoreaIbiza, SpainMallorca, SpainRatikon, SwitzerlandRailay Beach, Thailand

Informations

• Publié par: ABRAMS BOOKS
• Date de parution: 21 avril 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781683358893
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

Extrait

This book is for my girls, Cassidy, Annabel, and Deidre, and for everyone who s ever sought inspiration in the vertical realm.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
THE DESTINATIONS
1 Alabama: Horse Pens 40
RECOMMENDED BY DYLAN REINGOLD
2 Alberta: Bow River Valley
RECOMMENDED BY ELLEN POWICK
3 Argentina: Frey
RECOMMENDED BY QUENTIN L. ROBERTS
4 Arizona: Cochise Stronghold
RECOMMENDED BY TANYA BOK
5 Australia: Mount Arapiles
RECOMMENDED BY CHRIS PEISKER
6 Austria: Innsbruck
RECOMMENDED BY FRANCIS SANZARO
7 British Columbia: The Bugaboos
RECOMMENDED BY KOLIN POWICK
8 British Columbia: Squamish
RECOMMENDED BY KATY HOLM
9 California: Bishop
RECOMMENDED BY JEFF DEIKIS
10 California: Joshua Tree National Park
RECOMMENDED BY LESLIE TIMMS
11 California: Yosemite National Park
RECOMMENDED BY KEVIN JORGESON
12 China: Liming
RECOMMENDED BY MICHAEL DOBIE
13 Colorado: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
RECOMMENDED BY AMOS WHITING
14 Colorado: Rifle
RECOMMENDED BY JON CARDWELL
15 England: Lake District National Park
RECOMMENDED BY RICHARD GOODEY
16 France: Chamonix
RECOMMENDED BY FRAN OIS PALLANDRE
17 France: Fontainebleau
RECOMMENDED BY FABIEN BRONES
18 Germany: Frankenjura
RECOMMENDED BY SHAWN HEATH
19 Greece: Kalymnos
RECOMMENDED BY KATIE ROUSSOS
20 Idaho: City of Rocks
RECOMMENDED BY BENJAMIN EATON
21 Idaho: Elephant s Perch
RECOMMENDED BY KYLE GOUPIL
22 Italy: Arco
RECOMMENDED BY MATTEO PAVANA
23 Kentucky: Red River Gorge
RECOMMENDED BY ANDREW REED
24 Maine: Acadia National Park
RECOMMENDED BY JON TIERNEY
25 Maine: Baxter State Park
RECOMMENDED BY STEVE WRIGHT-EATON
26 Mexico: El Potrero Chico
RECOMMENDED BY FRANK MADDEN
27 Nevada: Red Rock
RECOMMENDED BY PHIL POWERS
28 New Hampshire: North Conway
RECOMMENDED BY BRAD WHITE
29 New York: The Shawangunks
RECOMMENDED BY CASEY CHEW
30 New Zealand: Castle Hill
RECOMMENDED BY TIMY FAIRFIELD
31 Oklahoma: Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
RECOMMENDED BY ADAM PETERS
32 Ontario: Lion s Head
RECOMMENDED BY GREG WILLIAMSON
33 Oregon: Smith Rock
RECOMMENDED BY JIM ABLAO
34 Slovenia: Bled
RECOMMENDED BY MATEVZ VUKOTIC
35 South Africa: Rocklands
RECOMMENDED BY SCOTT NOY
36 South Korea: Gyeonggi-do/Jeju
RECOMMENDED BY JOHN BURGMAN
37 Spain: Ibiza
RECOMMENDED BY MATT SAMET
38 Spain: Mallorca
RECOMMENDED BY MICHAEL CALL
39 Switzerland: R tikon
RECOMMENDED BY NINA CAPREZ
40 Texas: Hueco Tanks State Park
RECOMMENDED BY STEPHEN MAREK
41 Thailand: Railay Beach
RECOMMENDED BY TAR DINDANG
42 Utah: Maple Canyon
RECOMMENDED BY CHUCK ODETTE
43 Utah: Moab
RECOMMENDED BY NOAH BIGWOOD
44 Utah: Zion National Park
RECOMMENDED BY RACHEL ROSS
45 Washington: North Cascades
RECOMMENDED BY LARRY GOLDIE
46 West Virginia: New River Gorge
RECOMMENDED BY PAUL NELSON
47 West Virginia: Seneca Rocks
RECOMMENDED BY ARTHUR KEARNS
48 Wisconsin: Devil s Lake
RECOMMENDED BY JOHN WOWCZUK
49 Wyoming: Devils Tower
RECOMMENDED BY FRANK SANDERS
50 Wyoming: Grand Teton National Park
RECOMMENDED BY ROB HESS
Germany s Frankenjura was the chosen home of Wolfgang G llich, one of the world s greatest climbers .

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the generous assistance of the climbers who shared their time and experience to help bring these fifty great climbing venues to life. To these men and women, I offer the most heartfelt thanks. A special thanks goes out to Timy Fairfield, Francis Sanzaro, and Scott Stevens, who kindly made introductions on my behalf. I also want to acknowledge the fine efforts of my agent, Stephanie Kip Rostan; my editors Ashley Albert, Samantha Weiner, and Annalea Manalili; designer Anna Christian; and copy editor Margaret Moore who helped bring the book into being. Finally, I want to extend a special thanks to my wife, Deidre, and my daughters, Cassidy and Annabel, for their patience with my peripatetic lifestyle . . . and to my parents, Tina and Andy, who though passed now, always encouraged me to pursue my passions.
Liming pioneer Mike Dobie sinks two fingers into the thin crack known as Wild Man Variation (5.12) on the multi-pitch classic Back to the Primitive-one of the must-do climbs in Liming, China .

FOREWORD
Growing up in the shadows of the Sandia Mountains, a dramatically uplifted fault ominously defining the eastern boundary of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, embedded the mysterious allure of rock climbing in my psyche as far back as I can remember. The most distinctive features of these rugged mountains are the proudly exhibited miles of granite big-wall pinnacles, the endless granite boulder fields dispersed throughout the foothills, and the network of inconspicuous steep limestone power bands-offering the potential for a lifetime of discovery.
I was fortunate enough to have been introduced to the mountains by my uncle Raymond, who brought me and my younger brother on a mini-expedition that consisted of setting our objective, planning the itinerary, preparing snacks, packing our climbing gear, sneaking out of the house without my mother noticing, orienteering the approach, exploring the boulder fields along the way, stopping for many snacks, locating the climb, route reading the line, being dragged up a little frozen waterfall, and getting our butts home before my mother found out! Pulling off such a scheme (even though we eventually got busted by Mom) signified a rite of passage for me as a person. I may not have been an adult yet, but I was not a baby anymore.
Being involved with rock climbing has provided me with tremendous personal and professional opportunities. I have traveled to more than forty countries, learned several languages, and cultivated meaningful personal relationships with incredibly diverse people who share the same underlying core human values and passion. Such experiences have helped me become a more complete human being and have contributed to my developing a global mind-set as a citizen of the world. My life experiences motivated by rock climbing have empowered me to think for myself, question authority, and dissent from the constructs of the privileged First World psychology, media distortion, social injustice, racial prejudices, and political dogma-leaving me with an unwavering and empathetic respect for all ethnicities, cultures, and peoples of the world.
I have met some of the most fascinating, personally evolved, and cultured individuals I know through climbing. I discovered my soul mate-with whom I have been in a relationship for almost two decades-through climbing competitions. We even found our dog on a climbing trip. I guess one could say that the yield has been high!
Rock climbing has emerged as the most accessible and widely practiced sub-specialty from the family of disciplines sharing a common mountaineering lineage background. Collectively, all forms of rock climbing have experienced rapid and sustainable growth rates over the past few decades, even when compared with other outdoor action sports. Despite the persistently nebulous identity of rock climbing and the seemingly endemic absence of being acknowledged as a real sport for many decades, rock climbing is decisively revealing with style why it is worthy of such recognition.
Along with the maturation of the sport, the proliferation of indoor commercial climbing gyms, imminent Olympic inclusion, and the corresponding accelerated industry growth, outdoor rock climbing areas have become even more numerous, more varied in style, more impressive, and more widespread worldwide. When I first started climbing in the 1980s, there wasn t a single commercial climbing gym in North America. Since that time, North America has witnessed the launch of hundreds of commercial climbing gyms and thousands more institutional climbing-wall installations. The public is finally starting to realize that rock climbing isn t as dangerous as it is fun. As a result, climbing has risen to become one of the most compelling multifaceted sports in the world. Quite simply, the writing is on the wall.
The iconic climbing areas depicted by Chris Santella in Fifty Places to Rock Climb Before You Die will arouse a desire to discover yourself through the exploration of the world in pursuit of these awe-inspiring locations. Each is characterized by the uniqueness of its location, distinguishing geologic characteristics, and expressive climbing movement style. These areas are a reflection of the rich history, unique subculture, and dynamic direction of our young sport. Rock climbing is a mentally engaging, physically challenging, travel-based activity through which you may discover that there is much more human and athletic potential within yourself than you had ever thought possible. May this compilation of world-class climbing areas evoke a renaissance of ideas and inspire us to live with passion through experiencing rock climbing aro