Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Alps From End to End: With 52 Full-Paged Illustrations
Previously mountaineering was one Of the best forms of training for a traveller, and indeed supplied, for busy persons whose annual holiday must be Short, experi ence Of all the Charms, excitements, and delights which reward the explorer Of distant and unknown regions Of the earth. The Object of the journey now to be described was to discover whether the time had not come when a return might be made to the habits Of Alpine pioneers. Of course the mystery is gone from the Alps, how completely none but climbers know. Almost every mountain and point of View of even third-rate importance has been ascended, most by many routes. Almost every gap between two peaks has been traversed as a pass. The publications of some dozen mountaineer ing societies have recorded these countless expeditions in rows Of volumes Of appalling length. Of late years vigorous attempts have been made to co-ordinate this mass Of material in the form Of Climbers' Guides, dealing with particular districts, wherein every peak and pass is dealt with in strict geographical succession and every different route and all the variations Of each route are set forth, with references to the volumes in which they have been described at length by their discoverers. Nearly half the Alps has been treated in this manner, but the work has taken fourteen years, and of course the whole requires periodic revision.
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