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Cordee BooksBen Nevis SMT 2nd Edition

Cordee Books Ben Nevis SMT 2nd Edition

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This is the long awaited update of the definitive Ben Nevis book, it is a Highly Illustrated and Exhaustively researched history of a mountain whose global status far outstrips its modest altitude. It tells a story of climbers, poets, map makers, geologists, as well as pioneering meteorologists.

For more than one hundred years, mountaineers have honed their skills and equipment on its ridges, faces and corries and applied them to great effect in the Alps and Greater Ranges.

Authors Ken Crocket and Simon Richardson have been at the forefront of the Ben Nevis story, both as climbers and as chroniclers of the people, events and unique character of Britain’s Highest Mountain. Ken Crocket authored the previous edition and co-authored the climbers' guide to Glen Coe. Simon Richardson has authored the past three editions of the climbers' guide to Ben Nevis.

•Fully updated history of Britain's most famous mountain from 1585 - 2008, •Highly illustrated with more than 400 (mostly colour) photographs, diagrams and maps, •Significant new research and historical photographs, •Includes chapters on: Ben Nevis Observatory, Ben Nevis Distillery, Ben Nevis Aluminium Smelter, Ben Nevis Hill Race, Environment and Conservation, Gaelic Place Names, Geology and Mapping,