“Yatsugatake is a wonderful mountain range. In terms of elevation, its highest peak, Mount Aka, rises to 2,899…

A classic of Japanese mountain literature,blending climbing, art, memory, and reflection.  Ueda was born in 19…

This book is a record of the youthful climbs in the Japanese Alps by Walter Weston, who is often regarded as t…

Walter Bonatti, in The Great Days of the Mountains—a work that can be regarded as a sequel to My Mountains—bro…

Alongside Walter Bonatti, Andrea Oggioni stands as one of the rare and outstanding climbers who shaped the bri…

Introduction

Walter Bonatti remains one of the defining figures of twentieth-century alpinism. This book records the years …

Riccardo Cassin was one of the legendary Italian climbers of the twentieth century, born in 1909. In the 1930s…