Review: Selected Alpine Climbs and Ski Mountaineering Routes, The 4000m Peaks of the Alps Volume 1: West

  Guidebooks and atlases, be they digital or print, often raise debate. That debate circles the drain with language arguing the masses, the unprepared, the non-locals, will denigrate the experience or even, damn it, slow the fast among us with their faffing. As much as a good guidebook directs and corrects with beta, it also…