UKC

Your vote for the best classic coffee table climbing books.

Will get things started with my vote for Cold Climbs.

In reply to baileyswalk: 'Lancashire' (original hard back version, 1999) aka The Brick for obvious reasons.

In reply to baileyswalk:

'the power of climbing' by David B.A. Jones

oh, and Fawcett on Rock

(both nominated because I can see them from where I'm sitting)

In reply to baileyswalk:

One of my little one asked me if she could take my copy to school as they were doing something. I've still to work out what it was!?

Still to get it back... (ex said it is still around somewhere)

In reply to baileyswalk:

Not strictly a climbing book, but Gordon Stainforth's 'Cuillin' is pretty marvellous.

In reply to tony: As is his 'Eyes to the hills'

In reply to baileyswalk: Rebuffat's Mont Blanc Massif - pure porn...

In reply to baileyswalk:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiHKAL

In reply to Nicholas Livesey:

This is my favourite too

In reply to baileyswalk: Pretty poor show so far folks.
What about:
Mount McKinley by Washburn and Roberts.
Mont Blanc by Bonatti.
Anything by Shiro Shirahata.
Himalaya Alpine Style by Fanshawe and Venables.

In reply to baileyswalk: I love the Pyrenees, so for me the series of big hardback coffee table books called 1000 ascensions by Miguel Angulo is wonderful - beautiful photos, lots of routes up all the major peaks, and very attractive hand-drawn maps.

In reply to tony:


Seconded.

Here's another one:
The High Mountains Of The Alps by Dumler and Burkhardt.

In reply to baileyswalk: I just added to a thread on the cover picture of Tony Howards book on the Troll Wall,I had seen the picture in the "Book of Modern Mountaineering"edited by Malcolm Milne it has probably been out of print for years but it would get my vote for the best coffee table book.

In reply to Tom Hutton:

I agree, it's has the best photos of some fantastic mountains.

In reply to baileyswalk:

Voyage au Coeur du Mont Blanc /Journey to the heart of Mont Blanc by Pierre Tiarraz and Mario Colonel

Beautiful colour and black and white photos and all the comments in both French and English.

In reply to baileyswalk:
Galen Rowell "Mountain Light"

In reply to baileyswalk: 'Simone Moro' 8000meters to live for' is definitely one of my favourites... fantastic images and a few great words too/...

In reply to baileyswalk:

Extreme Alpine Rock

High Mountains of the Alps

Climbing Ice - Y Chouinard

In reply to baileyswalk:

Simon Carter's 'World Climbing: Images From The Edge' is a fantastic photo essay on rock climbing. Always a personal favourite to go back to for inspiration, it's got awesome pictures in general but from the UK the stand out section is the Dinorwig slate.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Climbing-Images-Simon-Carter/dp/097576621X

In reply to baileyswalk:Preposterous Tales. Emmett/Gresham

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Preposterous-Tales-International-Climbing-Escapades...

In reply to baileyswalk:


Bancroft's Recent Developments; it's just sooo cool to use it as a coaster..