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Mountaineers : great tales of bravery and conquest
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- UK: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. in association with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and The Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01 M86 uk
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- 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
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 360 p. : chiefly col. ill., ports
- 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
- ISBN
- 9781405365598
- Accession Number
- 8206
- Call Number
- 01 M86 uk
- Collection
- Archives Library
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