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Emilio Comici: Angel of the Dolomites
Passion, Pitons, Politics and the First Big Walls
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Artikel-Nr:
9781771604567
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.09.2020
Seiten:
248
Autor:
David Smart
Gewicht:
490 g
Format:
229x147x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
David Smart has been climbing since 1975 throughout North America and Europe. He has completed hundreds of new routes in eastern Canada and is the founder of Gripped, Canada's Climbing Magazine, Canadian Running magazine, Canadian Cycling Magazine and Triathlon Magazine Canada. He is also the author of five climbing guidebooks; a memoir entitled A Youth Wasted Climbing, short-listed by the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival in 2015; Paul Preuss: Life and Death at the Birth of Free-Climbing, short-listed for awards by both the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival and The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature (UK); and he is the co-author with Brandon Pullan of Northern Stone: Canada's Best Rock Climbs. He is the editorial director of Gripped Publishing and is still an active new-router in northern Ontario. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
The first English-language biography of one of the most renowned Italian climbers, Emilio Comici, who bagged over 200 first ascents in the Eastern Alps prior to his death at 39 years of age in 1940.