Downward Bound: A Mad! Guide to Rock Climbing by Warren "BATSO" Harding (1990) AAC Press

Downward Bound: A Mad! Guide to Rock Climbing by Warren "BATSO" Harding (1990) AAC PressShit talking book. This book has a real style to it, starting with the drawings and continuing to the writing, which has a lot more personality than your standard climbing book. Harding lampoons the climbing culture of the day and describes his two famous climbs: the Nose and The Wall of Early Morning Light (The Dawn Wall) on El Capitan. The book closes with a farcical appendix describing the climbers of the day. This copy is the 1990 Menasha Ridge

self-published guide to the climbing in the Mt

including: Mexican Hat

Flexibound volume in excellent shape

and John Long in front of El Capitan was first published - on the cover

he can choose his own lines on the crags without regard to the guide-book pattern and thus revert

This slim volume includes the best routes at a ton of climbing areas

+ Thanks for your climbing stories about Fritz Weissner

An Alpine Experience by John Harlin

Previous owner's name written on spine

This is not a picture book

84 numbered pages

black and white w/ index