Edward Whymper - Scrambles Amongst The Alps - 1936

Sixth edition 1936.
"Donated to the Fell and Rock Climbing Club
of the English Lake District by Mary Barton nee
Morse 2001."

Publishers brown cloth with cover vignettes.
Gilt title to spine.
Marbled endpapers and page-blocks.
Bookplate and name on inside.
Covers strengthened.

xviii, [1], 432 pages.
Frontispiece plate.
Title vignette.Frontispiece portrait.
Full-page b&w plates.
1 fold-out colour plate.
5 fold-out b&w maps.

Whymper's classic account of adventures on and about the Matterhorn.
Illustrated from the author's own drawings and relates the fateful ascent
by a party which included Whymper, during which 4 climbers fell to their
deaths. Considered by many to be "the most famous mountaineering book
in the world" (Neate).

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