The Seventh Grade: Most Extreme Climbing
Author(s):
Messner, Reinhold
Copyright: 1974, Kaye & Ward, London
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.160, 4 color & 26 bw photos, map, red cloth
Condition: dj w/ light fading to spine (common), else fine, cloth w/ 2 pages lacking some paper, from printing, not affecting text, pen notation back, fine.
Messner's first book with accounts of his early Alpine climbs and training. He advocated the Seventh grade as a natural extension of the Sixth, which used to be -the absolute limit of potential climbing. Neate M90.