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...Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1840-1911) one of the leading figures of the early years of Alpine climbing. He is best known, of course, for his many attempts on the Matterhorn, and for the loss of four member...

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... various regions of Nepal, including Kali Gandaki, Helambu and the Everest Region. His exploits of these treks are described in ‘Nepal Himalaya’, a mountaineering classic that has been reprinted by the Seattle Mountaineers as a part of the Tilman Collection. Another visitor was Maurice Herzog, who led a French expedition to the base of Mount Everest. After opening its...

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...as breathing very fast. The sensation reminded me of my only experience of mountaineering, and from that I judged the air to be more rarefied than it ...

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...his father was to join him and take him mountain- eering, that second-rate mountaineering which is so dear to dons and schoolmasters. When the time ca... ...overing over the conclusion of their meal, asking questions about Amanda’s mountaineering and expressing incredulous admiration. 153 H G Wells His bi... ...r you the stars, for me the music and the lan- terns. You are the son of a mountaineering don, and I am a Chinese philosopher of the riper school. You...

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...e deep respect which a courier’s presence commands, and I must insist that as much style be thrown into my journeys as possible. So the two assumed co... ... fearful calling slung about their persons, roosted in a long line upon a stone wall in front of the hotel, and waited for customers; sun-burnt climbe... ...I cannot recommend this sort of animal—at least for excursions of mere pleasure—because his ears interrupt the view. I and my agent possessed the regu...

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...e would go back to Simla when he was a little stronger. He desired no more mountaineering. He made small haste to go away, and recovered his strength ...

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...thoughtful man. Thus, after long hours of what would be reckoned very fair mountaineering in civilized countries, they would pant over a saddle back, ...

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.... Her own inclination (after a month with the Paris dressmak- ers) was for mountaineering in July and swimming in August. This plan they punctually fu...

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...co. I should have had military manoeuvres, training ships, aeroplane work, mountaineering and so forth, in the place of the solemn trivi- alities of g...

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...he’s horizon is Montmartre, which is not an edifying quarter. You can’t go mountaineering in a flat country.” “He remarked, indeed,” said Newman, “tha...

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...tchinson’s Extinct Monsters, the Badminton vol- umes on big game shooting, mountaineering, and yachting, Kerner’s “Botany,” collections of “The Hundre...