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Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club - John Ball, President of the Alpine Club

1860 - Longman, London - Fifth Edition
Finely bound edition of this important set of climbing essays, edited by the Alpine Club's first president, John Ball. Known as the Traveller’s Knapsack edition, due to it’s smaller size, illustrated with seven folding colour maps.

Ball collected firsthand accounts by members of the Alpine Club of excursions into various regions of the Alps. Ball noted with satisfaction that members of the Alpine Club had left the beaten track in the Alps to complete first ascents of the Monte Rosa, the Dom, the Grand Combin, the Alleleinhorn, and the Wetterhorn.

The Golden Age of Alpinism.
 
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