AREE GREUL - Buchversand - Antiquariat

AAC / RGS  / 360 Page, colour photos, Size: 31,0x26,0cm, / Edition: 2011 / Hardcover / 2,2kg / SEHR GUT !

EIN TOP - BUCH DER BERG- UND EXPEDITIONS - LITERATUR !

Written in association with the Royal Geographical Society and The Alpine Club, Mountaineers tells the story of the pioneers who first conquered the giddy heights of our planet. Full of great tales of endurance and perseverance, more than 100 of the top mountaineers are profiled, from Hannibal to Hillary. Share in their triumphs and tragedies from the comfort of your living room as journal extracts and never-before-seen photographs and maps from the unpublished archives of the RGS and The Alpine Club help recreate history's greatest ascents.

• Mountaineers introduces you to a host of intriguing characters, from the Brits who insisted on hauling cases of vintage champagne up to Everest base camp in 1924, to the Italian Duke of the Abruzzi who took 10 iron bedsteads up Alaska's Malaspina glacier. Along the way you'll also find out about the important scientific discoveries that have shaped the course of human history and enjoy accounts of great bravery, fellowship and good humour in the face of adversity, all making Mountaineers a fascinating read for anyone with a spirit of adventure

Peter Mallalieu / 232 pages 100 of color photos / Edition: 2011 - NEW EDITION / Alpine Club of England/London

Peter Berg / 156 pages, Illustrations: b/w photographic plates / Alpine Club / London / Format 21,0x21,0cm / Edition: 2011 / flapped paperback

2011 marks the centenary of the death of Edward Whymper, one of the most important figures in the history of mountaineering. His ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, and the deaths of four members of his party on the way down, attracted attention throughout the world, bringing him praise and criticism in equal measure.

In later years he largely devoted his life to lecturing and writing guidebooks, touring Britain, Europe and America. Whymper was an early member of the Alpine Club and in the club’s archives is a set of magic lantern slides he used to illustrate his lectures. Based on extensive research, former AC Archivist Peter Berg has combined these images with extracts from Whymper’s books and diaries and writings by his contemporaries, to recreate the lecture ‘My Scrambles amongst the Alps’, first given in 1895.

These pictures, mostly not seen for 100 years and never been published as a set before, give us a unique glimpse of the mountain world at the end of the 19th century. We visit the Zermatt valley and its peaks, passes and glaciers, experience Whymper’s many attempts to climb the Matterhorn, explore the Mont Blanc region, including the ill-fated building of an observatory on the summit, and share some of the joys and sorrows of mountaineering.

Setting the lecture in context, is a foreword by the distinguished mountaineer and former AC President, Stephen Venables

• Peter Berg was born in Sweden and moved to England with his parents as a child. He is a retired scientist and radio 3 announcer and producer, now a guide in the Cathedral and city of Canterbury. A mountaineer of modest ability and achievement, he has been a member of the Alpine Club since 1992 and has always been interested in the history of mountaineering. As Hon. Archivist of the club from 2000 to 2005, he was custodian of a remarkable collection of documents dating back to the very beginnings of mountaineering