Book Details
248
July 30, 2019
Width: 5.50 in
Height: 8.50 in
"Paul Preuss - Lord of the Abyss is a skillfully written and meticulously researched book." - NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTS
"Was [Preuss] a patriarch or pariah? The argument continues, yet the path Preuss set, which has wound through climbing for a century, led directly to Alex Honnald's successful free solo on Yosemite's fearsome El Capitan. As such, this book introduces the origin of the notion to a new generation of climbers." - NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTS
"Climbers talk of 'feeding the rat', a hunger to climb more and more and David reflects that, for Paul, climbing in a pure style was his 'food for immortality', a food which carried him to the most beautiful places on so many extraordinary adventures." - NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTS
"[Paul Preuss: Lord of the Abyss] is an intriguing dive into the [Preuss'] life and accomplishments..." - NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTS
"Smart...has intricately woven stories of Preuss’ life and accomplishments with vivid illustrations of the times and the rising middle class in the outdoors into a magnificent biography." - NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTS
"His creed: to estimate well his capacities compared to the ascensions to which one claims and thus to remain safe, to leave the rope and the pitons to the emergency situations." - NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTS
"This book's sub-subhead - Life and Death at the Birth of Freeclimbing - attempts to summarize a formative period immediate post Europe's Golden Age of Alpinism, when mountaineering, rock-climbing and skiing were changing public perception of the mountains that had surrounded them forever." - NO ATTRIBUTION EXISTS