John Burgman, Kynan Waggoner

High Drama (eBook, ePUB)

The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of American Competition Climbing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One afternoon in 1987, two renegade climbers in Berkeley, California, hatched an ambitious plan: under the cover of darkness, they would rappel down from a carefully scouted highway on-ramp, gluing artificial handholds onto the load-bearing concrete pillars underneath. Equipped with ingenuity, strong adhesive, and an urban guerilla attitude, Jim Thornburg and Scott Frye created a serviceable climbing wall. But what they were part of was a greater development: the expansion and reimagining of a sport now slated for a highly anticipated Olympic debut in 2020.High Drama explores rock climbing's transformation from a pursuit of select anti-establishment vagabonds to a sport embraced by competitors of all ages, social classes, and backgrounds. Climbing magazine's John Burgman weaves a multi-layered story of traditionalists and opportunists, grassroots organizers and business-minded developers, free-spirited rebels and rigorously coached athletes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Triumph Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781641254090
• Artikelnr.: 72473958

Autorenporträt

John Burgman has been reporting on competition climbing for the better part of a decade. He writes regularly for Climbing and Climbing Business Journal . He is a Fulbright grant recipient and the author of two previous books, Why We Climb: A Dirtbag's Quest for Vertical Reason and Island Solitaire. Kynan Waggoner is the former CEO of USA Climbing, the national governing body of the sport of competition climbing in the United States.