2000. 480 pp, 40 color, 20 b/w photos, many maps. A complete guide to Alpine hiking. 19 areas covered in detail: Pennine, Bernese, Central Swiss, Bernina, Brenta, Silvretta, Otztal, Stubai, Zillertal, Limestone, Dolomites, Julian, more. Walking is unquestionably the best method of exploring, and it is the mountain walker for whom journeys in the Alps reveal some of the finest views, the greatest contrasts. This book is a definitive guide to the many thousands of possible routes, with a geographical span that ranges from the Maritime Alps of southern France to the Julians of Slovenia, from Italyís Gran Paradiso to the little-known Trnitzer Alps of eastern Austria, and from the ice-bound giants of the Bernese Oberland to the green rolling Kitzb¸heler Alps and the bizarre towers of the Dolomites of South Tirol, showing the amazing diversity of this wonderful mountain chain. There are walks to suit every taste: gentle and undemanding, long and tough, and everything in between.
Written by Britain's most respected authority on the Alps, this is a fully updated edition of this important book.
