Kyrgyzstan: A Climber's Map & Guide [Map]

Garth Willis (Author), Martin Gamache (Illustrator)

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About the Author

The text for this American Alpine Club map-guide was written by GARTH WILLIS of The Alpine Fund, a Kyrgyzstan-based charity that takes at-risk children into the mountains. The cartography is by MARTIN GAMACHE of the Alpine Mapping Guild, who has lifted these topo maps to an art form.

Product Details

• Map: 2 pages
• Publisher: American Alpine Club (March 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933056002
• ISBN-13: 978-1933056005
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 6.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,878,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars useful map, the best so far on the market, February 17, 2008

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This review is from: Kyrgyzstan: A Climber's Map & Guide (Map)

It is the only good quality map available for English reading audience.
Pros:
1) Covers well extremely remote country,
2) Provides a lot of details,
3) Written and prepared by a person who knows his business.
Con:
1) Quality of the paper should be better,
2) Needs some more polishing.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars excellent map, extremely poor paper, February 12, 2008

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This review is from: Kyrgyzstan: A Climber's Map & Guide (Map)

This map is a great overview of three of the more notable climbing areas in Kyrgyzstan, one of the most beautiful of the central asian 'stans', where great opportunities abound for trekking, climbing, and 'eco tourism'.
The maps are beautifully done topographical relief maps, with some short but useful descriptive text about the areas.
Unfortunately the paper quality is extremely poor, in fact the creases have already begun tearing after only unfolding the map a couple times. This dreadfully poor paper quality makes the map virtually useless for all but the most gentle armchair exploring, I'm going to have to tape the map back together in less than a week of just looking at it on my desk. So the map gets one star for my review, I should have hoped 'Alpine Map Guild' would have put much more quality into their printing, such a flimsy map is just an insult.