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clueless
climber
Saugus, MA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 17, 2008 - 01:48pm PT
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where can i find a good climbing guide for the swiss alps?
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Pretty Much
climber
San Jose
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Sep 17, 2008 - 02:24pm PT
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I just got back from there ... the best bet is to go to local book & climbing stores near the areas you want to climb.
We were able to find guidebooks everywhere we went, albeit in other languages most of the time.
There is one book - rock climbing Europe that you can find pretty easily in the US. It covers 1 area of switzerland - the grimsel valley which is a bunch of single to multi pitch granite routes.
There is some good info here in a thread i posted before my trip.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=635240&msg=640521#msg640521
Let me know if you have any questions, we spent 3 weeks in and around Switzerland including northern italy and chamonix.
Jeff
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Wheatus
Social climber
CA
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Sep 17, 2008 - 02:33pm PT
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I like "International School of Mountaineering" in Leysin (http://www.alpin-ism.com/);. The director is Pat Littlejohn a British expat. When I was there in the mid 80's they had a climbers hostel in Leysin that was relatively cheap. Nice place with nice people who love climbing.
I tried a guide service before ISM in Grindelwald (near the Eiger). Those boys were rather smug and gave me the impressive they were German army veterans. I called ISM instead and climbed in the French Alps and Swiss Alps from their location in Leysin.
FYI - The French Swiss appear much more hospitable than the German Swiss.....my opinion for what its worth.
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clueless
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 17, 2008 - 03:38pm PT
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Well i was hoping to find more on the swiss alps than just what's in climbing in Europe. It's a gift for my boyfriend who dreams of climbing/ice climbing/alpine climbing in the swiss alps someday, mostly focused on the eiger, which i know is a bit extreme, I'd just love to get him a book about it, but all the books I find are mostly trekking and hiking and such.
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swill
Social climber
Colorado
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Sep 17, 2008 - 03:57pm PT
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Bernese Oberland by Les Swindin is a great little guide book covering most of Switzerland.
ISM is top rate. The hiking Sheep is the cheap place to stay in Leysin
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Michael D
Big Wall climber
Napoli, Italy
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Sep 17, 2008 - 04:20pm PT
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With The Eiger as a focus, a good book to gift is: The Vertical Arena by Daniel Anker. It really gets the "I gotta go" revvin'
It's way cool you've got his climbing interest in mind!
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Sep 17, 2008 - 04:22pm PT
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Yeah, the Anker anthology is great, but the Eng. lang. ed. is already out of print and costs well over a hundred bux.
If yr. boyfriend can read German, Rainer Rettner's new book is the standard history and has tons of really good pix.
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clueless
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 18, 2008 - 08:56am PT
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The vertical arean looks like an amazing book, i have found it in english print on amazon, but i'm afraid the price is a little too steep.
I found Bernese Oberland by Les Swindin and it looks like a good guidebook, but I've also ran into Valais Alps East by Linda Griffin and aslo Valais Alps West by Linda Griffin. Does anyone have an inside look on either of these two books?
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