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. Large format paper with full color covers. Near Fine to Fine.
Contents include: Mirror Mirror by Ed Drummond; West Side Story by Greg Donaldson, First on Alberta by Chris Jones and Jean Weber; The North Face of Alberta by George Lowe; The Taurus Mountains of Turkey by Harold Elwood; White Out by Ray Hadley; Moses by Fred Beckey; Direktas by Dennis Mehmet; The Rise or Fall of the YDS by Jim Bridwell; Review, Climbing Notes and Contributors.