Costa Blanca Rockfax (2005) Joshua Tree

Costa Blanca Rockfax (2005) Joshua TreeBy Chris Craggs and Alan James. The Brits writing a guide to a Spanish tourism destination, who would have thought. Wonder what the Spanish have to say about this Costa Blanca (the White Coast) is a sunny limestone paradise along Spain's Mediterranean Coast. There is excellent single pitch sport climbing as well as some opportunity for longer routes, both traditional and bolted. 368 pages, full color with an absurd amount of pictures and topos.

Wall of the Nineties

He speaks with great affection of the book

AMGA SPI textbook by Bob Gaines and Jason D

The Poles have a particular attraction to this unique form of suffering: 10 of the 14 first winter ascents were made by Polish or partly-Polish teams

Editor WH O'Connor (1976)

Steve's a world-class alpinist but a middling writer

Authors of the profiles include:

black-and-white with maps and primitive topos

including the 1968 supplement (bound in)

with a preface by Yvon Chouinard and short essays from Steve Roper

with photos and cartoons throughout

Valley of the Gods