FIGHT GRAVITY: KLETTERN IM FRANKENJURA

First edition. Signed by the author Kurt Albert. Publisher's original pictorial boards. Text in German. Illustrated in colour throughout. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing and bumping at the extremities. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Published to accompany the 2005 documentary film about rock climbing in Frankenjura, directed by Hannes Yikes and featuring Kurt Albert, Sepp Gschwendtner, Uli Glawe, John Bachar, Tomas Meier, Michael Kiess and others. Scarce, exceptionally so signed.

Signed by Kurt Albert in black marker pen on the blank reverse of the front endpaper (the signature slightly offset to the title page). Kurt Albert (1954-2010), German rock climbing legend, recipient of Germany's highest sporting accolade the Siberne Lorbeerblatt, and inventor of the redpoint (rotpunkt) philosophy. In the early 1970's as free climbing was taking its first tentative steps, Albert painted a simple red dot - a Roter Punkt - at the base of the routes in his Frankenjura home to indicate that the line had been climbed without the use of aid, but entirely free. The rotpunkt style ushered in a revolution in rock climbing and soon came to represent the entire free climbing movement, paving the way for the evolution of modern sport climbing. On September 26, 2010 Albert fell to his death in a climbing accident whilst guiding a group of novices and friends in the Frankenjura region.