Summit register

A summit book or summit register is a record of visitors to the summit of a mountain. It is usually enclosed in a weatherproof, animalproof metal canister. Some books are maintained in an informal manner by an individual or small group, while others are maintained by a club. Well known and often climbed peaks, such as those on peak bagging lists, are more likely to have summit books. On the other hand, mountains which are very heavily climbed or have popular trails up, such as Mount Whitney or Ben Nevis, may not have registers, or may have a daily log book that is changed out often.

The Sierra Club places official registers on many mountains throughout California and the United States. These are typically small notebooks kept inside large metal boxes. When registers are filled up, they are collected and stored in the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, California where they are available to view.^[1]

Entries in a summit book vary, from a simple note of a person's name and date of the climb, to notes about the scenery or long essays about the events of the climb. Some summit books contain a record of climbs going back for many years. On an infrequently climbed peak, this record may exist in one volume on the peak itself, while on frequently climbed peaks with a well maintained register, this record may be spread over many volumes, all but the current one in the possession of the maintaining person or club.

Bibliography

• Òscar Masó García: Libros de cima. A History of Passion and Conquest. Madrid 2018, Desnivel Editions, ISBN 9788498294200

References

Types

Rock climbing	Disciplines Aid Big wall Multi-pitch Bouldering Highball Competition Speed Free Sport Traditional Solo Free solo Deep-water solo Rope solo Top roping Rock types Crack Face Slab
Mountaineering	Alpine Via ferrata Himalayan Alpine style Expedition style Ice Mixed Dry-tooling Scrambling Hillwalking
Other	Buildering Canyoning Crane Grass Commercial Parkour Pole Ropes course Rooftopping Roof and tunnel hacking Slide Tree

ListsTerminology

Equipment	Rock Aider Daisy chain Anchor Ascender Croll Belay device Auto belay Glasses Gloves Bolt Boulder mat Carabiner Maillon Climbing rope Cord Dynamic Static Chalk Descenders Figure-8 Harness Hooks Fifi Skyhook Hammer Hex Lanyard PAC Nut Copperhead Piton Portaledge Quickdraw SLDs Grigri Revo Sling SLCDs Camalot Shoes Tricam Ice and snow Alpenstock Abalakov thread Bottled oxygen Crampons Ice axe Ice tool Ice screw Mountaineering boot Rescue Avalanche cord RECCO Transeiver Snow anchor Snowshoe
Action	Abseiling Australian Dülfersitz Belaying Crevasse rescue Front pointing Glissading Jumaring Leading Flashing Onsighting Redpointing Roof climbing Self-rescuing Simul Spotting Traversing Tyrolean
Other	Ape index Approach shoe Clean Climbing route Beta Guidebook Climbing wall Chipping First ascent Pitch Topo Exposure Fall factor Grades Guides Training Bachar ladder Campus board Hangboard MoonBoard

Media

Magazines and journals	Alpine Journal Alpinist American Alpine Journal Canadian Alpine Journal Climbing Desnivel Himalayan Journal Planinski Vestnik Rock & Ice Summit
Non-fiction films	The Alpinist El Capitan The Dawn Wall Free Solo Hard Grit

CompaniesOrganizations

National

Access Fund Alpine Club Alpine Club of Canada American Alpine Club Appalachian Mountain Club Austrian Alpine Club British Mountaineering Council Club Alpin Français Club Alpino Italiano Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada Fédération française de la montagne et de l'escalade German Alpine Club South African Climbing Federation South Tyrol Alpine Club Swiss Alpine Club USA Climbing

International

International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) Union Internationale des Associations de Guides de Montagnes (UIAGM) Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (UIMLA)