Talk:Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills/Archive 1

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I added the "standard textbook" language, in order to make it more palatable for most Wikipedians. I think that many people would object to an article about a random book. However, this book is very important to the climbing community and I think it deserves an article. -- hike395 18:53, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)


 * Paranoid about "deletionists" are we?? :-) My rule of thumb is to consider making an article for a book when it is used as a reference for more than one article, just so info isn't repeated. Books in multiple editions are likely to have interesting history too. Stan 14:06, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)


 * I was using the book as a reference for some of the paraphrased information I put on Wikipedia. As we all know much knowledge this book contains for climbers/mountaineers, I also thought it deserved its own article. RedWolf 01:50, Dec 2, 2003 (UTC)


 * I've made a reference to "in North America" in that textbook stage - it might be required reading in the US & Canada, but most UK mountaineers have never heard of it - a search on the UK's main climbing forum www[.]ukclimbing[.]com says the phrase "Freedom of the Hills" has been mentioned 11 times in six months as of today! I'm not sure what we use as an alternative; it's probably mostly word-of-mouth (and the fact that we have no large-scale wilderness or alpine areas within these islands making some of the book less necessary) for the average climber; and Eric Langmuir's "Mountaincraft & Leadership" (or more recently Mountain Leader Training's three-volume textbook) for instructors. Both cover approximately the same material. A random UK mountaineer 15:25, Dec 12, 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.121.115 (talk)