Just went to a library ran by a local outdoor organization. Just tons of history books, guidebooks, videos. And you can just borrow them. Do your research. Enjoy them. It's amazing.
Fuck the person who has kept one rare book I wanted to check out for the last 12 years tho.
Lucky for me I believe the whole book is available online in high quality scans. Just wanted to like hold it and flip through it because I'm a old-school weirdo haha. Definitely a situation of it being "not economically viable" to print. Like the author allowed the scans happily but not enough people wanna buy it to print it since the 90s.