Paul Preuss: Lord of the Abyss

Paul Preuss: Lord of the Abyss

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.
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Published 2019
Related Wild Words
cerro de trincheras  SEH-roh deh trin-CHEH-rahs fault scarp talus  TAL-us terrace ablation  ah-BLAY-shun transhumance tranz-HYOO-munts