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| Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide (A Climbing Guide) 2nd Edition | 
| Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $18.95
Buy New: $9.99
You Save: $8.96 (47%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 20280
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 245
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.52209797782
ASIN: B001C31JU4
Publication Date: September 30, 1999
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 Guide for Climbing up Rainier November 17, 2008
This is a good book, written by one of the most competent guides on Rainier. It gives you the classic route (of which there are several variants) which I will hopefully attempt this spring and some much more challenging routes that involve much slogging through snow and crevasses which are only for the truly masochist among climbers.
Also has good suggestions on how to get properly conditioned, food and water tips, as well as some grate advice on the real reason to hire a guide. Great book, and good value!
Philip Corsano
 This author is not just a climber, but also a rescuer. March 19, 2008
This book is a great read for anyone interested in climbing Mt. Rainier. It seems targeted for beginner to mid-level climbers, as safety is plainly paramount. Let's not forget, Mike Gauthier is the Head Climbing Ranger at Mt. Rainier. When individuals get in trouble at Mt. Rainier, he very likely will be involved in their rescue.
The first part of the book is information about the mountain and the park. It is well written and easy to read. Even non-climbers will likely find this interesting. The latter part of the book is the actual route decriptions. They are properly brief, but descript enough to make sure the reader will be able to find their way.
This book is unique because the author approaches it as not just someone who has climbed all these routes, but more importantly someone who has been involved in years of rescues. Gauthier obviously has first hand experience climbing routes of all difficulty at Mt. Rainier, but his more valuable lessons have come from the years of rescuing. He has witnessed the mistakes climbers have made, and wisdom from those mistakes is clearly more valueable than uneventful ascents, regardless of how impressive. His writing very much encourages a trip to The Mountain, but at the same time he makes the dangers clear.
Awesome read May 7, 2007
This book covers everything from routes (with maps, elevation gain, difficulty) to permit regulations, information on guide services and common mountain practices/courtesy. Definitely recommended, a quick read.
Excellent review of Mt. Rainier climbing January 24, 2007
Read the reviews, perused the book and decided to buy 3, one for each of our cabins at Mt. Rainier. We get a lot of climbers, scramblers and hikers to our cabins near Ashford and they love the armchair reading.
Informative and entertaining even for non-climbers August 28, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm not much of a mountain climber at all...Mount Rainier is one of the very few mountains I've ever stepped foot on. Mike's book was still highly entertaining to read for stories or general infactuation with climbing.
I'd sit on a high ridge somewhere in the park ([First] Borroughs Mountain and Plummer/Pinnacle Peaks are great places for that...) and just compare the pictures with the mountain...the routes are clearly marked and explained including all access trails and possible dangers. It's got a lot of personal and relative stories that, once more, amuse more than climbers alone.
The new edition also covers glaciers by Paul Kennard, the regional fluvial geomorphologist of that area. More medical advice and guide advice too--it covers a good range of Mount Rainier necessary information. It's one of the most (if not the top) personal books on climbing Rainier I've found.
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