Author: Stephen Livingstone & Abbie Garrington
Title: Scaling the Heights - Miniature Mountaineering - an Exhibition Which Explores the Rich Heritage of Mountaineering Literature
Description: Pubd. By Authors?, 0. Soft Cover. np (48p) illustrated. Not dated but 2018. The book of an Exhibition of Action Men teams, fully equipped and dressed in appropriate climbing gear, posed in a series of around thirty scenarios improvised on the shelves, stacks and stores of 11 important libraries. Each climb was selected because of its association with an important work of mountaineering writing. Beginning with E. F. Norton's account of the fateful 1924 Everest expedition, the work moves through the post-War period when so many of the Himalayan peaks were scaled (with reference to Maurice Hertzog's Annapurna amongst others) and enters the modern age of adventure mountaineering with Pete Boardman and Joe T asker's story of their scaling of Changabang (drawing on the books The Shining Mountain and Savage Arena). The project commemorated important climbs and literary accounts. It also considered risk, the climbing bond, human effort, geology and scale, and suggests that we can all climb, through reading, research, play and imagination. Participating archives were Alan Rouse Collection, City Library, Sheffield; Alpine Club Library, London; - Chorley Hopkinson Mountaineering Library, Allan Bank, Grasmere, Lake District. Fell and Rock Climbing Club Library, Armitt Museum, Ambleside, Lake District; Geological Society, Burlington House, London; Jeff Ford Collection, Longlands, Lake District; Mountain Heritage Trust, Blencathra, Lake District; Mountaineering and Polar Collections, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; North East Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Neville Hall, Newcastle; Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London; Wordsworth Trust Collection, Jerwood building, nr .Grasmere, Lake District The book isi fine unmarked and little used condition. . Fine

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