Chamonix/ Dolomite guidebooks

[Anne]

Does anyone know how to get ahold of English lang guidebooks to Chamonix and the Dolomites? All I can find are Alps hiking stuff..

[Ade]

The Alpine Club in Britain does English language guides to most of the western Alps. There web site is at http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/. You can order them by phone. Chessler Books may also have them.

Ade

[al]

A couple of places :

The Mountaineer's bookstore has the following :

Classic Dolomite Climbs by Kohler & Memmel

The Mont Blanc Massif : The 100 Finest Routes Gaston RebuffatI have Rebuffat's book and just love it. It's a classic, first published in 1973 and republished in '95 by his wife. Lots of great photos. You'll want to go down to Metzger's Maps and get the map : 3630 OT Chamonix - Massif Du Mont Blanc and maybe map 3531ET to the south. Our go http://www.ign.fr Between the map and the book you'll have a winter's worth of exploration and dreaming as you find where all these classics are. The pictures are somewhat amusing, having been taken back in the fifties and sixties. Lots of nickers, wooden axe shafts, and ropes tied around waists on long runout pitches! But that's the way it was. And all the information should be very relavant.

At Chessler Books you can get these books as well and, in addition, the Alpine Club's (London) guidebooks for the Alps. I have Valais Alps West,and I got the 1 : 50000 scale maps from the Mountaineer's bookstore. These seem to be very thorough books, but are a pack friendly, smaller format than the coffee table variety that Rebuffat's is. www.chesslerbooks.com or call 800- 654-8502

Hope this helps you out.

Now if I can just get myself over there one of these days.....

[Alex]

I have vol 1 and vol 2 of the Chamonix alpine guides in English..send me an email to borrow.

Alex