Thursday, February 17, 2011

The 1972 Chouinard Catalog



One the most prized items in my climbing library is this copy of the famous and trend-setting mail order catalog. In a world with no Internet or blogs, few books and magazines that covered climbing, nor a plethora of specialty shops, here was a thin tome that spelled out the philosophy and announced the vision for a new generation of alpinists. I started climbing the year this catalog was produced.


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