Author: (Alpine Journal).
Title: THE ALPINE JOURNAL: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation By Members of the Alpine Club. Volume XXVII February 1913 to November 1913 (Nos. 199-202). Edited by George Yeld.
Description: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913. 1st Ed. x + 464pp. Many plates and maps including some folding. Some light browning, original gilt lettered terracotta cloth with gilt vignette to upper board, spine very sl. chipped. ¶ From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal. Articles include The Growth of a Legend or Paccard v. Balmat by D.W. Freshfield, Scrambling in the Carrara Marbles by L.S. Amery, A Fourth Visit to Sikhim Himalaya with Ascent of the Kangchenjhau by A.M. Kellas, etc.

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