The Bold and Cold

A History of 25 Classic Climbs in the Canadian Rockies

Nonfiction, Travel, Canada, Western Canada, Sports, Outdoors, Mountaineering, Adventure & Literary Travel
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Author: Brandon Pullan ISBN: 9781771601160
Publisher: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books Publication: March 18, 2016
Imprint: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books Language: English
Author: Brandon Pullan
ISBN: 9781771601160
Publisher: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Publication: March 18, 2016
Imprint: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Language: English

Perfect for the armchair traveller or devoted mountaineer, this book grabs the reader by the boots and takes them along on the best climbs to be found in the heart of the Canadian Rockies.

Over the past 100 years, climbers have been pushing standards in the Canadian Rockies. From long alpine ridges to steep north faces, the Rockies are synonymous with cutting-edge ascents. Peaks such as Robson, Chephren, Kitchener, the Twins and Alberta elude the many and reward the few. Many of the big faces were climbed between the 1960s and 1990, the golden age of alpinism in the Rockies. The men and women who were part of that age set high standards.

Future alpinists read old journals and guidebooks, hoping to experience what the alpine “pioneers” did. The Rockies require a certain edge that comes with age, humiliation and failure, for most. Perhaps the ones who drink the most whisky, dream of the biggest peaks and sleep with snowballs in their hands are the ones rewarded with the momentary triumph of coming to a draw with one of these mountains.

This is not a guidebook. Rather, it is a narrative history by the people who risked life and limb to establish these long, difficult and sometimes scary climbs.

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Perfect for the armchair traveller or devoted mountaineer, this book grabs the reader by the boots and takes them along on the best climbs to be found in the heart of the Canadian Rockies.

Over the past 100 years, climbers have been pushing standards in the Canadian Rockies. From long alpine ridges to steep north faces, the Rockies are synonymous with cutting-edge ascents. Peaks such as Robson, Chephren, Kitchener, the Twins and Alberta elude the many and reward the few. Many of the big faces were climbed between the 1960s and 1990, the golden age of alpinism in the Rockies. The men and women who were part of that age set high standards.

Future alpinists read old journals and guidebooks, hoping to experience what the alpine “pioneers” did. The Rockies require a certain edge that comes with age, humiliation and failure, for most. Perhaps the ones who drink the most whisky, dream of the biggest peaks and sleep with snowballs in their hands are the ones rewarded with the momentary triumph of coming to a draw with one of these mountains.

This is not a guidebook. Rather, it is a narrative history by the people who risked life and limb to establish these long, difficult and sometimes scary climbs.

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