Author: ASSOCIATON OF BRITISH MEMBERS OF THE SWISS ALPINE CLUB
Title: Inauguration of the Cabane Britannia on the Klein Allalinhorne Saas Fee, August 17, 1912 and Obituary Notices and Portrait of Clinton Dent.. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Description: [Privately Printed],, 1913. 8vo., First Edition, with several plates, free endpapers lightly browned; original green cloth, boards framed in blind, upper board lettered in gilt, green top, green marbled endpapers, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. The Britannia Hut is the only mountain club hut in the Alps built entirely from funds raised by British climbers. Clinton Dent (1850-1912) was the first President of the Association. RARE. Neate 33.

Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine club, swiss alpine blub, cabane britannia, allalinhorne, clinton dent


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