Red River Gorge South by Ray Ellington (2013) Cosumnes River Gorge

Red River Gorge South by Ray Ellington (2013) Cosumnes River GorgeA Rock Climbing Guidebook to Kentucky's Red River Gorge. Volume 2: Southern Regions. This is the 4th edition. This book includes both sport and trad climbs but the crags covered are generall some of the most popular sport climbing areas in the RRG. Volume 1, considerably rarer more coveted, includes a lot more trad climbing. This volume covers: Natural Bridge Muir Valley PMRP Motherlode 296 pages, full color, with great production including sun

By Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke

This memoir tells his perspective on those early days

Patey died in 1970 at the young age of 38

Index with many b&w photos throughout

first ascent of the popular Cruz del Sur (Southern Cross) route on La Esfinge

Pitch-by-pitch topo map showing all the routes on El Capitan on the endpapers

which can often feel like a samey slog

192 pages with over 400 color photographs

This book covers both the popular East face scrambling routes

This book describes Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler's pioneering climb of Everest without the use of bottled oxygen

with computer topos

and not for scientific or exploratory purposes