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Notes: At head of title: Raccolte di documentazione del Museo nazionale della montagna.; Text in Italian and English.; The fourth book in the series is devoted to the registers kept by mountain huts and hotels, and to the Fuhrerbuchs, or 'testimonials', kept by mountain guides, diaries written in a spontaneous and informal hand that conserve the tales of great mountaineers, simple hikers or day-trippers and that stand witness to a climb or holiday. (from back cover)

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Publisher: UK: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. in association with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and The Alpine Club

Responsibility: written by Ed Douglas ; additional writing, Richard Gilbert, Philip Parker, Alasdair Macleod

Publisher: UK: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. in association with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and The Alpine Club

Subjects: Wood, Sharon; Kain, Conrad; Hillary, Sir Edmund; Messner Reinhold; Mallory, George

Notes: British edition; The early mountaineers. Climbing for survival ; What mountains mean ; Mountains and Christianity -- Climbing for science and art. A new frontier ; The cultural heights ; The first summiteers -- The Golden Age of alpinism. A fashion for climbing ; The price of adventure ; "An easy day for a lady" ; Birth of modern alpinism -- Beyond the Alps. The greater ranges ; Climbing in the New World ; Alpinism in Japan -- Slaying the giants. The greatest show on Earth ; Back of an envelope ; The Himalayan Golden Age -- The age of extremes. The North faces ; The unwritten rules ; Women mountaineers ; Fast and light -- Mountain directory. "Celebrating a rich tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, Mountaineers tells the stories of the pioneers who first scaled the heights of this planet."--P. [2] of jacket