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Jun 7, 2012 at 11:07 am #1290794
Can you recommend some books written by people who climbed mountains (in the 1-3 week variety) before 1960 that share the details of eating, staying warm, sleeping, hydrating, and staying well mentally and physically?
Jun 7, 2012 at 1:02 pm #1884953Anything by Norman Clyde, Clarence King is good too.
Jun 7, 2012 at 9:41 pm #1885121Hmmmm, would love to read about this as well …. probably a ton to learn from their organic school of hard knocks lessons ….
Jun 7, 2012 at 10:16 pm #1885127You can read the accounts of the old Everest climbers in the 1920's, Mallory and Irvine and all that.
For clothing, they tended to wear many thin layers of silk and wool. For footware, they tended to wear full leather boots with hobnails driven into the soles. For cooking, they often had alcohol cookers that didn't work very good.
The Brits learned how to go a long way on kippered herring and a bit of lukewarm tea.
–B.G.–
Jun 8, 2012 at 8:08 am #1885216Fred Beckey had his first book published in 1949 but most of his books are from the 60's and 70's.Born in 1923 he still climbs
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9373
Jun 10, 2012 at 1:19 pm #1885713I was fortunate to attend a Kurt Diemberger presentation earlier this year – one of the original of the earliest 8000 meter summit mountaineers. A fantastic awe-inspiring presentation.
http://www.amazon.com/Kurt-Diemberger-Omnibus-Summits-Secrets/dp/0898866065
There is also the Smithsonian Mountaineers – gives a nice chronological order to the mountaineers, development of the tools and means of mountaineering advancement.
Jun 12, 2012 at 11:03 pm #1886439Maybe "our own" Dan McHale might post some stuff. He climbed with folks like Galen Rowell and Fred Beckey when he was a teenager.
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