* A remarkable story of early mountaineering legends and a list of their most significant climbs * Fifty vintage black-and-white photographs and six maps * Many exciting stories and personal anecdotes Joe and Paul Stettner have been called the first true sport climbers in America; contemporary and fellow legend Paul Petzoldt called them "the human flies" for their bold and acrobatic style. Legends in the early mountaineering community, they put up some of the most difficult routes in North America during a career that spanned the beginnings of modern rock climbing in the 1920s to well into the big-wall climbing era of the 1950s. This is a story not only of climbing adventure but of lives touched by many of the great dramas of the 20th Century.

The Stettner Way: Life and Climbs of Joe and Paul Stettner

Sports & Outdoors

Gorby, Jack

Biographies

Colorado Mountain Club

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The Stettner Way: Life and Climbs of Joe and Paul Stettner