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I never saw a guide like this one!

Small enough to bring in a stuffed backpack, this excellent guide will let you travel along the trail to the top of Denali before even taking the plane. Perfect to plan your trip, everything is in it: gear check, clear maps, day-by-day detailed itinerary, breathtaking pictures... Since buying this book the first time, I ordered some to give my expedition partners as gifts!

Mathieu Lapointe, Montreal, Canada on Amazon.com

Reviewed by seven-summiteer Jake Meyer

This is the ultimate ‘bible’ dedicated to climbing McKinley. What a pleasure to read an up-to-date, comprehensive guidebook for climbing in one of the most beautiful yet inhospitable environments on Earth. The wonderful pictures remind me of the awe-inspiring scale of the Alaska Range and a memorable expedition. It’s informative, enjoyable and beautifully presented, and should be top of every Denali adventurer’s kit list, to accompany them every step of the way.

The format is snowproof, windproof and probably climberproof. In the military, we use TAMs (Tactical Aide Memoires) to cope with every imaginable situation, and Harry's book is the ultimate TAM for climbing Denali. Whether it guides you to the summit, or merely adds to the library of the armchair adventurer, this book is an essential part of the team.

Jake Meyer, who in 2005 became the youngest man to complete the seven summits

From an online review

... and if you're going big on Denali, this little gem of a book is required reading.

I admit I was pretty suspicious at first, but the author gets it right with his advice on tackling the Big D. The author is Harry Kikstra, who has summitted Denali twice via the popular and non-technical West Buttress route. ... the book has ... everything from a concise summary of the effects of altitude to dealing with the extreme cold to GPS coordinates for camps. This book rivals Coombs' Denali's West Buttress in information content and has the advantage of being even smaller (and waterproof!), as well as more recent. Kikstra takes pains to be even-handed as he describes the advantages and disadvantages of going guided vs. unguided and other topics.

Review from http://gearflogger.typepad.com/weblog/2007/07/denali-summit-o.html

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