Vertical World by Katie Brown (2007)

Conversations with today's masters of rock.

Interviews and pictures with nine of climbing's mid-2000s heroes. Interviewees include:

• Dean Potter
• Steph Davis
• Tommy Caldwell
• Beth Rodden
• Josh Wharton
• Dave Graham
• Chris Sharma
• Jason Kehl
• Lisa Rands

Each person gets some good space to breathe, and the accompanying photography from names like Jimmy Chin, Dean Fidelman, and Kelley Cordes, is great.

161 pages, full color.