Chessler Books
Rock Climbing - Mountaineering - Exploration
New - Used - Collectible - Signed
Chessler Books Accepts PAYPAL Chessler Books Accepts VISA Chessler Books Accepts MASTERCARD Chessler Books Accepts DISCOVER CARD Chessler Books Accepts AMERICAN EXPRESS
All Orders Shipped via United States Postal Service   Chessler Books Ships Via USPS
Author:
Title:
Keyword:
Item #:
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M Mc N O P Q
R S T U V W X Y Z
Item #: BK2430B-9402p
THE STONE MASTERS: CALIFORNIA ROCK CLIMBERS IN THE SEVENTIES John Long and Dean Fidelman 2009 New Large Hardcover
By Long, John and Dean Fidelman
Price: $395.00

List Price: $595.00
You Save $200.00 (34%)



Add to wish list


Detailed Product Description
2009. 196 pp, many photos. New large format hardcover with color pictorial cover and clear plastic Dust Jacket with title on the Dust Jacket. Still in unopened original shrink wrap. 

The Stonemasters: California Rock Climbers in the Seventies, chronicles the meteoric rise of a small band of Southern Californians who, beginning in the early 1970s, radically altered the course of world rock climbing, and virtually invented the gonzo culture of modern adventure sports. With over two-hundred historical photos, along with the landmark essays and stories of John Long and others, The Stonemasters bring to life the legendary personalities, the victories and the tragedies that set the adventure revolution in motion.   

The Stonemasters began as a loose federation of Southern Californian rock climbers, all in their teens, who drove the first wave of the adventure sports revolution through the 1970s. Criteria for being a Stonemaster was an ascent of “Valhalla,” then a seminal climbing route at Suicide Rock, in Idyllwild, California.

Core Stonemasters soon ventured to Yosemite Valley, the Canadian Rockies, Central and South America, Australia, England, The French Alps, and beyond, and in the process, redefined modern rock climbing and sparked a paradigm shift within adventure sports at large. From the start, The Stonemasters were a living ideal, an open invitation to embrace the biggest, the boldest, and the totally unknown. Never before or since has so small a group so radically impacted the way people thought, spoke, felt, acted, and dressed.

Beyond their unsurpassed skills as climbers, the Stonemasters embodied a lifestyle--they were loud, proud, smoked dope, chalked their lightning-flash insignia across rockfaces, took the light stuff seriously and the serious stuff lightly--and the glamour of this lifestyle made a massive impact on 1970s youth culture across the world. Among the first Stonemasters were Rick Accomazzo, Richard Harrison, Mike Graham, Robs Muir, Gib Lewis, Bill Antel, Jim Hoagland, Tobin Sorenson, John Bachar and John Long, but the character or myth of the Stonemaster caught on like wildfire, spreading from coast to coast and across the ocean, and spawning Stonemasters everywhere. 

Over time, the Stonemasters moved from the granite walls of Yosemite to the great rivers and caves, glaciers and jungles of the world. From tow-in surfing in Baja, to trekking across Borneo, to crossing the North Pole, The Stonemasters have established a unique footprint in the wildest places on earth. StoneMaster Press is dedicated to bringing that wild world to the page in adventurous new ways and in all its amazing diversity. 

Extra postage for Priority Mail or International Mail.

Stonemaster Press LLC

ISBN-10 0984094903

ISBN-13 9780984094905


Other Items You Might Like

  • Similar Items Available
  • Items From This Author
  • Items From This Category
THE STONE MASTERS: CALIFORNIA ROCK CLIMBERS IN THE SEVENTIES John Long and Dean Fidelman 2009 1st ed New Large hardcover SIGNED by Jim Bridwell, John Long and Dean Fidelman
By: Long, John and Dean Fidelman
Price $495.00
- Item # BK2430A-9432p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
CLIMBING MAGAZINE LIST OF ISSUES AND DATES: FOR REFERENCE TO TAKE INVENTORY & MAKE A SET
By: Climbing Magazine
Price $0.00
- Item # J152G
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
VERTICAL WORLD: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MASTERS OF ROCK Katie Brown 2007 1st ed Softcover Near Fine
By: Brown, Katie
Price $8.95 ~ Regular $19.95, You Save $11.00 (55%)
- Item # BK2130-935
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE EIGER OBSESSION: FACING THE MOUNTAIN THAT KILLED MY FATHER John Harlin 2007 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple Copies Available [Not Signed]
By: Harlin, John III
Price $4.99 ~ Regular $26.00, You Save $21.01 (81%)
- Item # BK2188-96735
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
AMERICAN ALPINE JOURNAL 2009 Multiple copies available
By: American Alpine Club 2009 Journal
Price $25.00 ~ Regular $35.00, You Save $10.00 (29%)
- Item # AAJ2009-2336
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ACONCAGUA: A CLIMBING GUIDE R.J. Secor 1999 2nd ed or 2009 7th prtg Softcover Fine Multiple Copies Available
By: Secor, R.J.
Price $5.00 ~ Regular $16.95, You Save $11.95 (71%)
- Item # GB382A-9006
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
THE CRUISE OF THE CORWIN: JOURNAL OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION OF 1881 John Muir 1917 1st Large Paper Limited Edition DJ Slipcase Near Fine
By: Muir, John
Price $695.00 ~ Regular $1500.00, You Save $805.00 (54%)
- Item # OP487B-934
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
BIS ZUR SPITZE DES MOUNT EVEREST [TO THE TOP OF MOUNT EVEREST "THE FIGHT FOR EVEREST 1924"] E.F. Norton 1926 1st Swiss ed Hardcover Fine
By: Norton, E.F.
Price $19.99 ~ Regular $100.00, You Save $80.01 (80%)
- Item # OP63G-934
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
A WINDOW TO HEAVEN: THE FIRST ASCENT OF DENALI: AMERICA'S WILDEST PEAK Patrick Dean 2021 1st ed New Hardcover DJ Multiple copies available
By: Dean, Patrick
Price $19.95 ~ Regular $27.95, You Save $8.00 (29%)
- Item # BK4371B-9323
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
TRANGO: THE NAMELESS TOWER Jim Curran 1978 1st UK ed Hardcover DJ Fine 2 copies available
By: Curran, Jim
Price $35.00 ~ Regular $50.00, You Save $15.00 (30%)
- Item # OP1796C-9412
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
Sorry, we were unable find any similar items available by this author.


THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MARY VAUX WALCOTT Marjorie G. Jones 2015 Hardcover DJ Fine
By: Jones, Marjorie G.
Price $24.99
- Item # BK8252-927
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
ECUADOR: A RAS DE SUELO [Ecuador: On The Ground] Jorge J. Anhalzer 2001 2nd ed Large Pictorial Hardcover Near Fine
By: Anhalzer, Jorge J.
Price $35.00 ~ Regular $50.00, You Save $15.00 (30%)
- Item # BK4416-932p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
VISIONS OF PARADISE Reinhold Messner 1981 1st English ed Hardcover Fine
By: Messner, Reinhold, Bernhard Grizmek, Leni Riefenstahl and Herbert Tichy
Price $9.99 ~ Regular $75.00, You Save $65.01 (87%)
- Item # OP641-950p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
K2: 8611M Charles Houston 1954 1st edition Softcover Fine SIGNED by 6: Charles Houston Pete Schoening Bob Bates Tony Streather Bob Craig and Dee Molenaar
By: Houston, Charles, Bob Bates and George Bell
Price $325.00
- Item # OP2250AB-385
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
SIERRA CLUB ANNUAL MAGAZINES 1967, 1968, 1969 SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN Volume 52 Number 9 October 1967 NO 5 Tall Softover Near Fine
By: Sierra Club, David Brower
Price $9.95
- Item # OP3947-966
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
AAMA IN AMERICA: A PILGRIMAGE OF THE HEART 1995 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Broughton Coburn
By: Coburn, Broughton
Price $9.99 ~ Regular $25.00, You Save $15.01 (60%)
- Item # BK7280-935
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
MOUNTAINEERING John Cleare 1980 1st ed Softcover Near Fine
By: Cleare, John
Price $4.99 ~ Regular $25.00, You Save $20.01 (80%)
- Item # OP2387-158
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
EIGER: THE VERTICAL ARENA Daniel Anker 2000 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine Multiple copies available
By: Anker, Daniel
Price $49.99 ~ Regular $175.00, You Save $125.01 (71%)
- Item # BK415A-9432
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
QUEST FOR ADVENTURE Chris Bonington 1982 1st US or UK ed Hardcover DJ Fine Multiple Copies Available (Not Signed)
By: Bonington, Chris
Price $9.99 ~ Regular $35.00, You Save $25.01 (71%)
- Item # OP102B-9505p
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart
DETECTIVES ON EVEREST: 2001 MALLORY & IRVINE EXPEDITION 2002 1st ed Rare Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Eric Simonson and Jochen Hemmleb
By: Hemmleb, Jochen and Eric Simonson
Price $250.00
- Item # BK1806-930
View Details
Add To Cart
Adding...
Added! Click To View Cart