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Paul Preuss: Lord of the Abyss
David Smart
Biography of the Austrian climber who insisted on climbing without pitons in the early 1900s — a purist whose ethics were fifty years ahead of the clean climbing movement. He fell to his death at 27.
Mountains & Climbing
Biography
Alps & Europe
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Publisher
Rocky Mountain Books
Published
2019
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