1934 Mountain Craft

Description

Early Edition, Illustrated

The third edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding.

Ink inscription of "E. Dudley Ward" to the front free end paper, and to the verso of the first plate in the text, with notes on tying a bowline on a bight.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and six further plates, reproduced from photographs by Sydney Spencer, Oscar Eckenstein, C. F. Meade, Jean Gaberell and Norman Collie, with numerous in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.

An informative work on mountaineering written by a variety of experts, edited by the British climber Geoffrey Winthrop Young. This comprehensive work offers advice in leading expeditions, the necessary equipment, mountaineering with and without guides, methods of climbing, ice and snow craft, and mountaineering in different conditions. There are chapters on mountain ranges such as the Caucasus, Himalayas, Pyrenees, and many more, by climbers such as William Cecil Slingsby and Tom George Longstaff.

The editor Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876-1958) was a British climber, poet and author of many notable books on mountaineering. He made several new ascents in the Alps, including noted routes on the Zermatt Breithorn on Monte Rosa and the west ridge of the Gspaltenhorn, as well as his finest rock climb: the Mer de Glace face of the Aiguille du Grépon.