New Guidebook by Brad Johnson

Finalist at the 2003 Banff Mountain Book Festival

Classic Climbs of the Cordillera Blanca is, by far, the most beautiful and comprehensive book yet produced about Peru's - and South America's - most famous mountain range.

Classic Climbs of the Cordillera Blanca is, by far, the most beautiful and comprehensive book yet produced about Peru's - and South America's - most famous mountain range.

With 182 spectacular color images, including 16 panoramas, and detailed descriptions, author Brad Johnson leads us to the best that the Cordillera Blanca has to offer. Also included are 12 three-dimensional maps, using a cartographic technique never before presented in a climbing guidebook. Johnson's savvy travel tips and colorful anecdotes support the conventional wisdom that nowhere else are high-altitude climbs so enjoyable, accessible and inexpensive.

Here, for the first time, is all the information you need about the Cordillera Blanca under one cover.

Foreword by Adrian Burgess, 2nd ascent of the Pergot Route, Huascaran Norte, Peru.

*If you are international and mistakenly select shipping within USA we will not ship the item due to insufficient postage.

Dust Jacket Praise For Classic Climbs Of The Cordillera Blanca:
"This is an exceptionally fine guidebook to an exceptionally fine mountain range. The large format does full justice to the mouth-watering photos and the unique computer-generated maps provide clear orientation to the peaks and valleys. All the necessary information is here. Classic Climbs of the Cordillera Blanca, will assume its permanent place on my bookshelf, alongside Gaston Rebuffat's The Mont Blanc Massif, The 100 Finest Routes, but only after a long run as the centerpiece of my coffee table."
—Jeff Lowe, Author of The Ice Experience and Ice World

"Fantastic book, one of the best I've ever seen! Classic Climbs of the Cordillera Blanca, is stunningly presented, organized, beautiful, inspiring, helpful to first-timers and veterans alike, basically perfect. Now that I've studied Brad's exquisite guidebook, I am struggling to resist canceling all my plans for this year and booking a Cordillera Blanca trip instead."
—John Harlin III, Editor, American Alpine Journal; contributing editor, Backpacker

Cordillera Blanca gives every climber the information he or she is looking for in a range known for endless possibilities. From easy acclimatization peaks to the most difficult routes in the range, enough climbing objectives are covered to keep anyone busy for a lifetime of mountaineering. I can't wait to return there with this guidebook in hand!"
—Carlos Buhler, First ascent of the Southern Cross Route, Anqosh Face, Huascaran Sur.

Book Description:

8 x 9.75 inches, color laminated soft cover, 208 pages with 185 color images including 14 panoramic images of mountains all labeled. Plus twelve full color, 3-D maps of the valleys and mountains in the Cordillera Blanca.

Publication Date: October 2005

ISBN: 1-890437-90-5