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| Foreword | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Period I | Discovery by summiting | |
| Ch. 1 | Mountaineering takes shape | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | The pure Canadian outback | 25 |
| Ch. 3 | Pioneer Alaskan expeditions | 41 |
| Ch. 4 | The rise of clubs | 53 |
| Period II | Adventure revitalized | |
| Ch. 5 | Frontiers of verticality | 81 |
| Ch. 6 | The new explorers | 105 |
| Ch. 7 | Playing immortal | 123 |
| Ch. 8 | Busting through "impossible" | 137 |
| Ch. 9 | The giant routes | 161 |
| Period III | Better that we raise our skill | |
| Ch. 10 | The ice revolution | 193 |
| Ch. 11 | Style on rock | 225 |
| Ch. 12 | Style in the super-alpine | 251 |
| Pt. IV | When "why" disappeared | |
| Ch. 13 | High country freedom | 283 |
| Ch. 14 | The biggest arena: alpine style | 305 |
| Epilogue : the wild card | 327 | |
| App | Guidebooks to North American mountains | 330 |
| App | Alpine grades | 330 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Jordan Brunner
reviewed Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering on April 14, 2011
Ways to the Sky
While there were a few interesting stories, this reads like a very dry history book. That very well may have been the intention, so it may be good for mountaineering scholars. But not so good for me.
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