Feeding the Rat by Al Alvarez (2001) Fifty Classics

Feeding the Rat by Al Alvarez (2001) Fifty ClassicsA Climbers Life on the Edge. This is a biography of Mo Anthoine, a Fred Beckey type who climbed all over the world and didn't manage to make much of a name for himself, because he saw it as entirely besides the point. My introduction to this work came from a Swedish climber we met dirtbagging in Joshua Tree, who had painted "Feed the rat!" on the the side of the beat up sedan she was living out of. That tells you a lot, I think. The author has some

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sport climbs

The enduring popularity of this list indicates that Steve Roper and Allen Steck selected well

Climbing's most prolific modern journalist and researcher Bernadette McDonald examines the economically charged and changing dynamic between Western expedition climbers and local guides

Blodgett Canyon

so he's no stranger to climbing media

or UIAAA III to VII)

Griffin (1980)

he had been involved in three fatal climbing accidents

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black and white w/ index

text with black-and-white photographs throughout