Alaska Climbing (Super Topo) Paperback – April 1, 2006

The photos alone should inspire you! Wildly exposed, commiting and technical routes like the Ham and Eggs Couloir, Infinite Spur, Sultana Ridge...need I say more!!!Great photos, and topos. Buy with Colby's guide and HIGH ALASKA for the Alaska afficianado.[...]

Great guide to the great routes

This is the best guide book to many classic routes in the Alaska Range. It is also the very best guide book for the West Buttress of Denali. There are a few other guide books out there for the Range, and I have them... If you buy but one, this one is it... Why? Great Photos of the routes from land and air... Awesome Topos with great written descriptions. Also how to get there, flights into the range, where to shop for food and how to navigate the park BS... ++ much more.... Google Joe Puryear and you will see that this guy is for real... Sick climbs all over the globe. Enjoy Alaska and climb safe on these ultra classic routes.

A beautifully put together description of the classic routes in the Alaska Range. Puryear has climbed each route (an even bigger achievement than writing the guide) and his knowledge of the Alaska Range is unsurpassed. This contains the best written description of the West Buttress route as well as the more interesting routes that surround the highest mountain in North America. I have climbed a few of the routes in the book and found the descriptions to be very accurate.

This is an excellent guidebook. It has great photos and maps and gives more than enough information to be comfortable climbing any of the routes. As a lifelong Alaskan and having climbed in the Alaska Range myself, I think this guide is invaluable for any climber going there. Whether you're climbing rock routes on the Ruth or skiing the Sultana Ridge on Foraker, this guide is a must have.

DEFINITELY MUST HAVE GUIDE BOOK TO THE LAST FRONTIER. GIVES YOU ALL THE BETA YOU CAN POSSIBLE NEED FROM GEAR TO ROUTE DESCRIPTIONS AND OF COURSE THE MAGNIFICENT PHOTOGRAPHS THAT WILL NOT HIDE THE GRANDEUR OF THE POSSIBLE CLIMBS YOU SELECT. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE SOME MORE GUIDE BOOKS BY JOE!

This is the best Alaskan climbing guide, written by a guy who has climbed each route described. The route descriptions and detail provided, along with invaluable pictures, are excellent and will help you avoid pitfalls regardless of whether this is your first Alaskan climb or you are a wily veteran.

This is a must have book for Alaskan climbing. Joe's insight makes the book interesting along with being technically relevant. The drawing and his amazing photography makes this my favorite climbing book in my library. Nice job Joe.