Canadian Rock

Canadian Rock: Select Climbs of the West

Kevin McLane

Winner of Best Book on Mountain Exposition at the Banff Mountain Festival. This full-colour guide presents 1300 of the great rock climbs of Western Canada, from Squamish to Lake Louise and the Ghost River Valley : world-famous crags, popular classics, alpine crags, and little known jewels in one of the world’s most beautiful places. Over 70 areas and 800 colour-coded topos covering sport, trad and long multi-pitch on granite, limestone, quartzite and gneiss. 384 pages.
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High Col Press publishes guidebooks for climbers covering rock and alpine and sport, and upcoming in 2011, Canadian Alpine Classics, a large-format hard-cover coffee-table book about the great alpine climbs of Canada. Our mission with every title is to produce a durable, outstanding work of reference and literature that is a pleasure to use, distilled into a pleasing book that inspires climbers to explore the crags and the mountains and enjoy every day of their time on rock, ice and hill. read more…

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