The Finest Peaks: Prominence and other Mountain Measures

This Book Challenges The Precedent That A Mountain's Worth Scales With Height. It Is A Rational Synthesis Of New Concepts That Compel One To Reassess The Popular Heightist Mindset. The Concept Of Prominence, Loosely Defined As A Mountain's Vertical Relief, Is A Stiff Competitor To Summit Height For Assessing A Mountain's Stature And Relative Worth For Innumerable Purposes. The Community Of Prominence Theoreticians, List Builders, And Climbers Has Reached Critical Mass - Suggesting Publication Of A Book Dedicated Exclusively To Prominence. Revolutions Are Not Overnight. The Heightist Mindset Has Minimally A 100 Year Head Start. Eventually The Climbing Community Will Embrace Prominence. For The Mountaineer A Prominence-based Peak List Provides Fresh Goals Guaranteed To Satisfy. A Prominence-based Peak List, Regardless Of Geographic Region, Incorporates The Most Awe Inspiring And Diverse Mountains. Chapter I Introduces Prominence, Being Defined And Contrasted With Altitude As Peak List Generator. Chapters Ii And Iii Concern Peak List Production. Chapter Iv Reviews The History Of Prominence, Including A Compendium Of Prominence List Builders And Their Lists. Chapter V Is About Prominence Oriented Peakbaggers And Their Accomplishments. Chapter Vi Entails Prominence-derived Mountain Measures - Submarine Prominence, Inverse Prominence, Proportional Prominence, And Dominance. Chapter Vii Concerns The Advanced, Prominence-derived Concepts Of Parentage, Divide Trees, Lineage Cells, And More. Chapter Viii Concerns Alternative, Objective Mountain Measures: Isolation Measure; Peakedness And Prominence Density; And Height / Steepness Combination Measures - Drop Measure, Cliff Measure, Spire Measure, And Ruggedness Measure. Spire Measure Quantifies A Mountain's Subjective Impressiveness Due To Great Angularity. Chapter Ix Is A Search For The Largest Prominence Unclimbed Mountain - Grand Goal Of A Future, Summit-discovering Expedition. Appendices A To G Cover Various Subtopics, The Glossary Defines Over 300 Terms. 48 Pages Of Illustrations Are Included, With Full-color Versions On-line At Http://www.cohp.org/prominence/publication_2005_illustrations/main.html A Beautiful, Hardcover Edition With Color Illustrations Is Available, And Is Highly Recommended By Book Reviewers. ? E-mail The Author For Pricing And Purchase Information.