Mechanical Advantage: Tools for the Wild Vertical

Mechanical Advantage: Tools for the Wild Vertical

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First carabiners for climbing-summary.
Mechanical Advantage Series by John Middendorf
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Zion Climbing in the 1930s
Mechanical Advantage: Tools for the Wild Vertical draft for Volume 2
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Climbing Tools and Techniques—1908 to 1939 (Europe, PartA) Myths and Legends
Mechanical Advantage Series by John Middendorf
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State of the Art Climbing Gear, 1964
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some Trango Towers history
work in progress
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USA adoption of pitons 1920s-1939 Colorado (part A) Ellingwood and Lavender
Mechanical Advantage Series by John Middendorf aka Bigwall Scrapbook
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Early engineered rock climbing in the USA (Richard Leonard, 1934) USA part C
USA Adoption of pitons 1920-1939. Mechanical Advantage series (USA partC) by John Middendorf
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Games Climbers Play
sidebar to the tools and techniques stuff
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INDEX to Mechanical Advantage series
The development of big wall tools and techniques by John Middendorf IV
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Climbing Tools and Techniques—1908 to 1939-Aid Climbing Mastery (Europe, PartB 1st draft)
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Minamiura
and the great tale of the 1990 Trango Towers Japanese Expedition.
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1930s Climbing Tools (Europe, PartC)
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