World Climbing: Images from the Edge is
a visual celebration of modern technical climbing by one of the
sport’s leading photographers, Simon Carter. Without Hollywood
tricks or special effects, Carter gives readers a good, hard, honest
look at contemporary climbing at its finest.
This extensive work
features more than 90 climbers. Spanning 12 countries — Australia,
Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, New Zealand,
Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.,
each of the 29 climbing areas opens with an introduction highlighting
its appealing details. This book covers climbing from its easiest
to its hardest but above all its best.
World Climbing is an extraordinary
photographic odyssey that is as inspirational as it is beautiful.
Rich color, unlikely perspectives, and dizzying heights combine
to mesmerize spectators and transport them into another realm.
This is a high-quality
coffee-table book with more than 230 full-color photographs. It's
a great gift for anyone with an interest in climbing, photography,
breathtaking imagery, or the outdoors.
192 pages, 280 x 250mm. Published by Onsight Photography.
Where
to get it:
In Australia the book is distributed to
outdoor shops by Onsight Photography , and to some bookshops
by Bookwise.
In the USA it is distributed by Wilderness
Press and can be purchased directly from their web
site.
In the UK it is distributed by Cordee and
can also be purchased directly from their web
site.
Or purchase it now by mail-order from
our on-line
shop.
"Every
few years, a book of climbing photography appears which takes your
breath away. This autumn saw the publication of a such a volume, World
Climbing – Images From The
Edge,
by one of the world’s most gifted and committed climbing
photographers, Simon Carter. Climber was
lucky enough to get hold of a selected portfolio from the book,
a personal and difficult choice for me to make from so many stunning
images!" – Bernard Newman,
Editor, Climber Magazine (UK).
“Not just a gem of a book, but the whole jewellery
shop. The dilemma with World Climbing is how to approach
it. Do you look at one region at a time, savouring the flavour
as you consider each image? Or do you look through it all at once,
being blasted by amazing image after amazing image? I found myself
taking the whole journey around the world, and being left with
the feeling that climbing is a remarkable experience, and remarkably
varied. And that feeling will be the same every time I open the
book.” — Lincoln
Hall, Editor, Outdoor
Australia
"By its very nature, climbing photography is challenging:
it’s one thing to compose a striking scene in flattering
light, but to combine it perfectly with action that is as fast
and fluid as climbing is quite another. With a fine eye, and I
imagine, incredible patience and perseverance Carter has achieved
this consistently throughout this book. His compositions are clean,
powerful and artistic, whilst remaining authentic and natural and
he captures moment after moment with absolute clarity." – Mark
Watson , Editor, The Climber
Magazine (NZ).
"I just wanted to say thank you for the book,
it is magnificent. I've actually bought it to send to my brother
in Canada, and I was looking through it, and was blown away by
the total composition of your photographs... they are quite simply...
SPECTACULAR.... we don't rockclimb and we loved them.... Cam is
going to go ballistic.. I hope you have a Very Merry Christmas...." – Sarah,
mail-order customer.
“This would be hard to better as it works on so many levels.
The pictures are superlative, and would be recognisable as works
of art in any photographic context, but this too, as its title
asserts, is a look at the cutting edge of world climbing and the
folk who are keeping that edge razor-keen. So it’s a definitive
book of its time, too.” – Audrey
Salkeld, competition
judge at the Banff Mountain Book Festival 2006.
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