Alpine Climbing - Book suggestion?

Has anybody read "Alpine Climbing: Techniques to Take You Higher"? Its the one with the red cover and a picture of a guy's feet with crampons on the rocks.

I am looking for a book with more detail than Freedom of the Hills but I'd read a review that said if you have FotH and an advanced rock climbing skills book, which I have both of, to not bother with this one.

Can anyone back that up? Make other suggestions for winter snow/ice/glacier travel that goes beyond Freedom of the Hills?

Thanks

I have it and highly recommend it to my friends. Since reading it I have definitely improved my alpine climbing form and reduced weight, as well as learn a bunch of interesting tricks of the trade.

Great book!

if FOTH is the Old Testament, then Extreme Alpinism is the new testament. It will take you where you need to go.
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Extreme Alpinism by Mark Twight. Lots of good information/techniques and a fun read.

Micah beat me by a minute! Extreme Alpinism is closer to Revelations than the Gospel. Exciting but scary.

Wehling wrote:Has anybody read "Alpine Climbing: Techniques to Take You Higher"? Its the one with the red cover and a picture of a guy's feet with crampons on the rocks. I am looking for a book with more detail than Freedom of the Hills but I'd read a review that said if you have FotH and an advanced rock climbing skills book, which I have both of, to not bother with this one. Can anyone back that up? Make other suggestions for winter snow/ice/glacier travel that goes beyond Freedom of the Hills? Thanks

bearbreeder wrote: have it, recommend it they give some very good advice on navigations, techniques, etc ... IMO better than extreme alpinism ... you can get a lot of whats in extreme alpinism on andy kirkpatricks articles on his site

If you already have rock climbing skills and want to know more about general alpine skills, I think Alpine Climbing is an excellent book. It has a bunch of tricks and tips and is more applicable to the weekend warrior.

Extreme Alpinism on the other hand assumes the reader is already an experience alpinist (e.g. it does not cover glacier rescue techniques whatsoever) wanting to push into big routes in the Greater Ranges. I wouldn't recommend it to a beginning alpinist.

Micah Isaac wrote:if FOTH is the Old Testament, then Extreme Alpinism is the new testament.

Excellent Book and Top international guides.

I have climbed with the authors and have the book as well. You can't go wrong.

Mark Houston is the TOP AMERICAN GUIDE. Lives part time in Chamonix and climbs around the world.

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bearbreeder wrote: have it, recommend it they give some very good advice on navigations, techniques, etc ... IMO better than extreme alpinism ... you can get a lot of whats in extreme alpinism on andy kirkpatricks articles on his site

Kevin Craig wrote:Too many solutions in search of a problem IIRC.

I've read them all - FoTH, Mountaineering Handbook, Alpine Climbing: Techniques to Take You Higher, and Extreme Alpinism.

I actually liked The Mountaineering Handbook the best, and it is the one I use for reference the most. Techniques to Take You Higher definitely has a good section on leadership skills/decision making though.

I love that book but no amount of reading can prepare you for the real thing. I always read a chapter and make some quick notes and go climb and use what I have jotted down even if it is as simple as breathing a certain way. Anything helps when shit hits the fan!

Just giving that thread a bump - perhaps in the last decade or so new interesting references have come up. Currently looking at the 3 main themes mentioned here (Mountain Handbook, Techniques that take you higher& extreme alpinism). But in case you guys have more...

Oh and yes I know:

Erik W wrote: if FOTH is the Old Testament, then Extreme Alpinism is the new testament. Well then point me in the direction of the Scientology version of alpinism, because I want something so new and so warped that it'll blow my mind. "Put on your Xenu cloak and bivi while standing upright on one leg, for gravity is zero when inside the cloak. Use mental electron migration to think your worldly body up blank slabs and overhanging M15. For training, do couch jumps, repeat."

bringing this forward for prosperity

I've found the Mountain Guide Manual by Marc Chauvin (2017) to be quite useful. It takes a more modern approach to alpine climbing and occupies a niche that the other recommendations don't fill. 

I mentionned it a few days ago on another thread but still in the scope of your question: 

As a "how-to" book that can really help you go beyond the basic stuff I really like "1001+ Tips for climbers" from Andy Kirkpatrick. Its really a must, down-to-earth, read IMHO.

Freedom of the hills is all inclusive.

After that is time and experience 

John Penca wrote:

Freedom of the hills is all inclusive.

After that is time and experience 

Ah yes I did read doth and get back to it from time to time. However I think I got the mileage I could get from it and need something that goes deeper.

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