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Australian Climbing Media Reviewed
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Reviews by climbers, for climbers! This resource needs YOUR input. Please take the time to review the climbing books and movies you're familiar with. If the media is not below, just add it.

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Fiction    Push For The Summit

*** BK Australian Blood On The Lotus - Novel about a climber, Tibet, CIA, and a few twists...
** BK Australian Bright Air - Mystery/Thriller
**** BK Australian The Rope Dancer - A tale of mountaineering gone wrong, injury and recovery, and the search for meaning through living dangerously.
**** BK Australian The Universe Within - Climbing adventure mystery science philosophy - all rolled together. Author is an Australian climber so draws heavily on Arapiles and other crags.

Narratives    Push For The Summit

**** BK Australian Expeditions - Get inside the skull of Andrew Lindblade
*** BK Australian One Step Beyond - Bushwalker and climber, Warren meets with tradedgy.
***** BK Australian Sheer Will - The Awe Inspiring Climbs of Mike Groom. Includes 73 colour photos.
**** BK Australian Totem Pole, The - Devestating accident while climbing Tasmania's famous sea stack.
**** BK Australian White Limbo - The First Australian Climb of Mt Everest
** BK Australian Wind in My Hair, The - The story of Brigitte Muir, first Australian women to climb the Seven Summits

Non-Fiction    Push For The Summit

*** VD Australian A Summer in the Southern Alps - Vaughan and the RMIT crew take on various peaks in NZ.
***** BK Australian Alone Across Australia - One mans trek across a continent.
***** BK Australian Arapiles - a million mountains - Full colour coffee table book; not a climbing book: it’s a book about a great climbing area.
(No Review) VD Australian Australia’s Best Boulderers - (Doco) ASCF Australian Bouldering Nationals 2001
***** VD Australian Base Climb - (Doco) Two Australians team up to climb and base jump from the Great Trango Tower in Pakistan
* VD Australian Base Climb 2: Defying Gravity - (Doco) Husband and wife climb and base jump the highest cliff in the world
**** VD Australian Coming At Ya Hyper - (Doco) Australian Sport Climbing
* VD Australian Crux, The - Australia's Hottest Rockclimbing
**** VD Australian Eos - (Doco) Four of Australia's best young climbers sport climbing and bouldering in New Zealand
***** VD Australian Eos 2: Dreamtime - (Doco) Bouldering some of the hardest routes in Australia
(No Review) VD Australian Everest Sea to Summit - (Doco) One man's quest to climb Everest from sea level
(No Review) VD Australian Everest The Australian Challenge - (Doco) The first Australian Mount Everest Expedition to put up a new route
** BK Australian First Ascent: The Life and Climbs of Greg Mortimer - Biography of Australian Mountaineer
***** VD Australian Hard Way To The Top, The - (Doco) Mt Buffalo granite aid climbs, Ozymandias and Lord Gum Tree
**** VD Australian Harder Than Everest - (Doco) Aussies and Americans tag the 2nd ascent of Gasherbrum IV
*** VD Australian Low Gravity - B grade 90's Australian Climbing Video
***** BK Australian Rock Climbing In Australia - Stunning coffee table book of photographs
(No Review) BK Australian World Climbing: Images From The Edge - Glossy coffee table book showcasing Simon Carters climbing photos from around the globe.

Instructional    Push For The Summit

**** VD Australian Anchoring & Setting Up Top Ropes - (Doco) Instructions for top roping
*** VD Australian Moving Over Plastic - (Doco) Improve climbing performance through indoor climbing
***** BK Australian Rockclimbing: Getting Started - Instructional book for beginner climbers.

Guides (Australian)    Push For The Summit

*** BK Australian Climb Tasmania - Selected Best Climbs - Guidebook
***** BK Australian Memory of a Journey. Rock Climbing on Ben Lomond - Read the title
***** BK Australian Sydney Bouldering - The essential guide to bouldering in Sydney

Guides (International)    Push For The Summit

(No Review) CD Australian Interactive Guide to Climbing in South America - Comprehensive, media rich resource for mountaineering in South America

123 of 178 books, 127 of 203 movies reviewed. 562 total reviews.

 

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