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The Mountain Encyclopedia: An A-Z Compendium of More Than 2,300 Terms, Concepts, Ideas, and People

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Whether it's details on mountaineering or the mountain environment, its peoples, culture, or nature you seek, The Mountain Encyclopedia represents the first A-Z compendium on all topics - not just nature. Add 400 color photos throughout of mountains, volcanoes, rocks, and climbers and you have an excellent survey for a wide audience, whether it be a student seeking facts and figures about the world's mountains, a naturalist seeking geology facts, or a climber.

If you love mountains and mountaineering I guarantee you'll like this book. It has a great wealth of information. Everything from mountaineering terms and people, statistics about 100's of mountains and ranges in all 7 continents, and hundreds of wonderful color photos. It even has information about books and movies made about mountains. I love this book!

This is a book for those who love to travel acrossing the mountains. Not only very helpful for it seem like a text-compas: show us to the direct path.