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Valley Walls: A Memoir of Climbing & Living in Yosemite is more of a collection of short stories than it is a single narrative, which makes it an easy to pick up and put down. It also makes it a quick read. So if you’re looking to learn more about the roots of Yosemite climbing give Glen Denny’s Valley Walls: A Memoir of Climbing & Living in Yosemite a read.
On the Nose gives a good account of Florine’s ascent from a Yosemite wannabe, who bailed only a few pitches up the Nose on his first attempt, to the modern day guru of how to climb the route fast. It’s through early accounts of his experiences on the route that the reader can see Florine’s passion for the Nose grow. It’s also interesting to watch Florine’s dedication, systems, and strategy grow with each successive trip up the Nose.
Alpine Warriors follows the rise of Slovenian alpinism, mostly focused on their achievements in the Himalaya, following it from its rise in the 1960s and into today. Holding the book together are passages pulled from the pages of another book—Pot—authored by the iconic Slovenian alpinist Nejc Zaplotnik. Pot, meaning the way, has served as a bible for generations of Slovenian alpinists and been a defining work for generations fo climbers.
