Boulder, 1986. 32 pp, b/w photos and illustrations. Staple bound magazine with soiled covers and some old price stickers on the back cover. Near Fine overall.
SIGNED by Pat Ament and John Gill inside the front cover
The Climbing Art was a quarterly magazine of rock climbing founded and edited initially by legendary Colorado rock climber Pat Ament. It existed in the 1980s and 1990s, and had as writers and subjects such influential climbers as John Gill, Derek Hersey, Terry Gifford, Peter Croft, Greg Child, Alison Osius, David Breashers, Todd Skinner, John Bachar, Tom Frost, David Craig, Mirella Tenderini, Antoine Savelli, George Hurley, and Royal Robbins.
Issue No. 1 contains The First Ascent of Everest by Captain Nicolino Kloche Rubini, Aphorisms for a climber, a poem by Pat Ament (Over a Hill, by the Dreams) and Minstrel of Despairs by Mort Hempel.
