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The proceeds of guidebook sales tend to support local climbers and underpins route development
Pages are bent throughout and binding is a little weak near the top due to this
entirely handwritten
the Big Thompson Canyon
Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent
Everest, Inc. by Will Cockrell (2024) Boulder The proceeds of guidebook salesThe Renegades and Rogues who Built an Industry on the Top of the World. Although most climbers of my generation think little of Mount Everest, that was not always so. In the 1970s Everest was a real prize for real climbers, and even into the 1980s, the idea of guiding the mountain seemed absurd. The modern Everest guiding industry really only developed from 1990 onwards. This book tells the history of how that happened, and examines what's going on up