Ascent Vol. 6, No. 14 : The Climbing Experience in Word and Image

by HARRIS DAVID (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780930410803
• ISBN10: 0930410807
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books

Summary

Now published by the American Alpine Club, Ascent is the first new edition of this renowned journal in 15 years. As in previous editions, Ascent contains the full spectrum of climbing, writing, photography and art. Contributions to this new edition range from adventure narratives to fiction, to humour by such authors as John Harlin, Steph Davis, and Bob Viola. Two 8-page colour inserts feature the best of modern climbing art and a photo-essay by some of mountaineering's finest photographers.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Kusum Kanguru: The Dream Pillar	1	(12)
Stephen Venables
My Dinner with Anderl	13	(14)
David Pagel
Storm Camp (poem)	27	(4)
John Hart
Shipton Spire: Aid and Free	31	(64)
Mark Synnott
Jared Ogden
Kennan Harvey
Too Old for 5.12, Too Young for Obituaries	47	(20)
Joe Kelsey
There I Was...on Shiprock!	67	(6)
Alex Bertulis
Peregrine Dreams	73	(4)
Amelia Rudolph
Big-Wall Tale of Woe	77	(4)
Bob Viola
Comedy and Climbing	81	(10)
Bruce Fairley
Mimi Dreaming	91	(4)
Ken Baldwin
Climber as Artist, Artist As Climber	95	(46)
John Svenson
Jennifer Christiansen
Stephen J. Wood
Freddie Snalam
Gardner Heaton
Scottish Portraits	103	(10)
Terry Gifford
Sea to Summit: The Lessons of Wadd	113	(20)
John Harlin
Climber As Writer: From the Armchair to the Tetons	133	(7)
David Stevenson
Night Rappel (poem)	140	(1)
John Hart
North	141	(76)
Corina Acheson
Ed Webster
John Dunn
Mark Synnott
Warren Hollinger
David Harris
The Mechanical Advantage: Tools for the Wild Vertical	149	(26)
John Middendorf
Sandstone 101	175	(8)
Dougald Macdonald
Do the Right Thing	183	(5)
Dave Insley
The Bivouac (poem)	188	(3)
John Hart
Natural Order: Notes from the Tetons	191	(6)
Amy Irvine
Unravelings	197	(12)
Dennis Higgins
The Use of a Meal: Alpine Style on Thalay Sagar	209	(7)
Andy Selters
The Belayer (poem)	216	(1)
John Hart
South	217	(92)
Gordon Wiltsie
Stephen Venables
Gregory Crouch
Charlie Fowler
Cerro Torre Campaign	225	(16)
Gregory Crouch
Inside the Beech Forest: A Patagonian Sojourn	241	(4)
Cameron M. Burns
Sensation Seeking: Psychological or Genetic?	245	(6)
John Thackray
Dead Men's Gear	251	(2)
Jeff apple Benowitz
Exposure (poem)	253	(1)
John Hart
Where the Gods Live: Everest, May 10, 1996 (poem)	254	(5)
Patricia Farewell
No Other Annapurnas: Paragraphs Written in a Hospital	259	(2)
John Hart
Tuolumne Granite (poem)	261	(2)
John Hart
Pictures from Kyrgyzstan	263	(10)
Steph Davis
The Climbing Magazines: Read, Skim, or Ignore?	273	(8)
John Hart
Ironmongers of the Dreamtime	281	(16)
John Ewbank
The Adventure of the Speckled Hand	297	(12)
Robert Walton
Contributors	309