California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties

The photographs in this volume include images of legendary surfers such as Joe Quigg, Tom Zahn, Dale Velzy and Renny Yater, in locations such as Rincon, Malibu, South Bay, Laguna and San Onofre; and famous climbers such as Warren Harding, Royal Robbins and Wayne Merry among others, photographed mostly in the Yosemite Valley by the likes of Bob Swift, Alan Steck, Jerry Gallwas and Frank Hoover. The story told by the photographs in California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties takes place against the larger backdrop of postwar America: Truman and Eisenhower, the

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were on the road, a new generation of casually stylish, deeply tanned daredevils were test-piloting the first modern surfboards and scaling Yosemite's last unclimbed granite faces. (Conde Nast Traveler) . (Joel Patterson Details)Both Tribes are captured in the black-and-white and color images in the book California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties, out this month. Looking through these images, you'll find it hard not to fall under their spell - or daydream about buying a one-way tic