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Australia Mountaineering Library 17-Sep-2022 At 3:13:34 PM Damien Gildea

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On 16-Sep-2022 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>Yes, it’s a sad conundrum where the passionate often can’t get their hands
>on historical classics, yet institutions undervalue them.
>
>I don’t know how many other people peruse 2nd hand book shops, but I’ve
>found good mountaineering and associated research material to be almost
>unobtanium. I gather from the proprietors that if they come across good
>stuff that it doesn’t last long as there is a demand for it.
>I once paid triple price for a Sierra Club publication that I remember
>being cheap as chips back in the day when I bought a copy for a friend,
>and years later decided I wanted my own.

20 years ago this book was in all the local outdoor shops for about $30 or on the remainders clearance table for $5. But now...

https://www.amazon.com.au/My-Vertical-World-Climbing-8000-Metre/dp/0898863449

Book Lore in Lyneham ACT is one of the few good secondhand book shops left with a sizeable mountaineering selection.