Classic Climbs of the Cordillera Blanca is, by far, the most beautiful & comprehensive mountaineering guidebook yet produced about Peru's
- & South America's
- most famous mountain range. This is the 2009/2010 revised edition (first published in 2003). This Revised Edition
Includes:: updated information & prices on: transportation, hotels, restaurants, porters, burros, cooks, guides costs, Huascaran National Park, rescue information, hospitals, & logistical information; new photos; new route information on Alpamayo, Huandoy Sur, Yanapaccha, Vallunaraju & Ocshapalca; &, new map changes for the Llanganuco & Llaca valleys. With 182 spectacular colour images, including 16 panoramas, & detailed descriptions, author Brad Johnson leads us to the best that the Cordillera Blanca has to offer. Also included are 12 three-dimensional maps, using a cartographic technique never before presented in a climbing guidebook. Johnson's savvy travel tips & colourful anecdotes support the conventional wisdom that nowhere else are high-altitude climbs so enjoyable, accessible & inexpensive. Here, for the first time, is all the information you need about the Cordillera Blanca under one cover. Foreword by Adrian Burgess.