Mountaineering Literature: A Bibliography by Jill Neate (1986) Desert

Mountaineering Literature: A Bibliography by Jill Neate (1986) DesertA bibliography of material published in English. Second edition, revised and expanded. This is a pure reference work, very suitable for a historian or a researcher, not very useful for someone looking for light reading. It is a list of mountaineering books, fiction, alpine journals, and climber's guidebooks, published originally in English or in English translation. Many entries, but not all, have a sentence or two summarizing the book. 296 pages,

Key text to a well-kept secret

you can buy it on dreaded Amazon or at a Wyoming climbing store

Some highlights for me

many of the routes in the book may have only received one or two ascents total

and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges

Good luck finding one of these anywhere else

Maps and hand-drawn topos

00) still on front cover

This is a kick-ass magazine

Picture by Brad Johnson

Guide covers Eldorado Canyon

Nebel Horn