# Summit register

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{{Short description|Record of visitors to a mountain's summit}}
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[[Image:White Butte Summit Register.jpg|thumb|Summit book on [White Butte](/source/White_Butte_(North_Dakota)), the highpoint of [North Dakota](/source/North_Dakota) ]]
[[File:AmmgAlpen KraeheGipfelkreuzOst 2012.jpg|thumb|right|A [summit cross](/source/summit_cross) in [Austria](/source/Austria) with an attached container at the bottom for the summit book.]]
A '''summit book''' or '''summit register''' is a record of visitors to the summit of a mountain. It is usually enclosed in a weatherproof, animal-proof metal casing. 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](/source/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](/source/Mount_Whitney) or [Ben Nevis](/source/Ben_Nevis), may not have registers, or may have a daily logbook that is changed out often.

The [Sierra Club](/source/Sierra_Club) places official registers on many mountains throughout [California](/source/California) and the [United States](/source/United_States), typically small notebooks put inside large, metal boxes. When the registers are filled up, these are collected and stored in the [Bancroft Library](/source/Bancroft_Library) in [Berkeley, California](/source/Berkeley%2C_California) where they are available for viewing.<ref name=bancroft>{{cite web|title=Finding Aid to the Sierra Club Mountain Registers and Records, 1860-2005|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf738nb2br/|publisher=Online Archive of California|accessdate=7 April 2013}}</ref>

Entries in a summit book vary in format, 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 many years. On infrequently climbed peaks, this record may exist in one volume at the peak itself, while more popular peaks have well-maintained registers spread across many volumes, with all except the current one with a keeper or the club.

== Bibliography ==
* Òscar Masó García: ''Libros de cima. A History of Passion and Conquest.'' Madrid 2018, Desnivel Editions, {{ISBN|9788498294200}}

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== External links ==
*[http://www.pfaelzer-kletterer.de/content/_inhalt/pk/gb_gallerie/gallery.html Gallery of historical summit registers of the Association of Palatine Climbers]

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