Todd Skinner, an internationally renowned rock climber who made first ascents on dozens of the world's most treacherous routes and shared those adventures as a motivational speaker, died Monday after falling several hundred feet during a climb in Yosemite National Park in California.
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KRT Wire | 05/15/2006 | Climber, author tackles Old World in search of new rock
Free climber Stewart Green has a new book out entitled Rock Climbing Europe
"When I started going to Europe in the 1990s, it was difficult to find information there," he says. "You had to translate guides from French and Italian, and all you had were hand-drawn topo maps and no photographs."
Green's guide includes climbing routes with maps and photos in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Germany and Norway - all places, he says, that are steeped in a great climbing tradition.
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