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Voices from the Summit: The World's Great Mountaineers on the Future of Climbing

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Description: The World's Great Mountaineers on the Future of Climbing, celebrating 25 years of the Banff Film Festival. Size is 251 pages w/ contributor bio and many mountain photos, measures 9" by 12", softbound, published by National Geographic in association with The Banff Centre for Mountain Culture. From the back cover: "An extraordinary tribute to the art of mountaineering with many of the worlds greatest climbers, a book both unique in scope and unprecedented in authority. Looking back at the climbers milestone's and forward to new challenges, these founding fathers, contemporary superstars, and their chroniclers explore every aspect of the sport and offer thoughtful, personal, and often provocative vision of what mountaineering truly means to the men and women who test their spirits and hazard their lives in the risky but rewarding world of high adventure."

Contributors include Reihold Messner, Ed Viesturs, Wade Davis, Sir Chris Bonington, Catherine Destivelle, David Breashears, Greg Childs, Leo Houlding, Sir Edmund Hillary, Lynn Hill, Yvon Chouinard, Jeff Lowe, Todd Skinner, Kitty Calhoun, Will Gadd, Thomas Hornbein, Royal Robbins and 15 others weighing in on 11 topics crucial to the future of mountaineering, from Himalayan climbing and the ethics of adventuring to ice climbing and rock climbing, plus a history of the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

Personal opinion: Interesting read with the individual bios and mountaineering history, great information on philosophical approach to the climbers world. Easy to read sections without losing focus, each climber stands alone, can move around rather front to back. A good reinforcement to belief, you can do anything you want.

With honest to goodness, (up?)down to earth, interviews of people that have really earned their place in the book. A Fantastic read.