San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1984 1st edition. 177 pp, color and b/w photos. Large format Hardcover with Dust Jacket, with full color covers. Near Fine to Fine.
This 1984 edition was the only Ascent that was a hardcover, all the earlier and later issues are softcovers.
Articles: Confessions of a Guidebook Written by Joe Kelsey, Masherbrum, Denali photos, Angels of Light by Jeff Long, Dave Roberts, Paine Cordillera.
Ascent was initiated as the mountaineering journal of the Sierra Club. It appeared occasionally over the years. Each issue is a collection of excellent writing about mountaineering, fiction, fact and poetry as well as photography and art related to mountains.