Excerpt from The Story of Alpine Climbing Alpine climbing is distinctly a modern enter prise. As a sport it is usually dated from the ascent of the Wetterhorn by Mr Justice Wills, then Mr Alfred Wills of the junior bar, in 1854 and the English Alpine Club - which was the first of all the Alpine Clubs - was not formed until three years later. Explorers and men of science, however, had had adventures on the mountains before the sportsmen repaired to them for athletic exercise, so that the threads of the story of the pastime ...
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Excerpt from The Story of Alpine Climbing Alpine climbing is distinctly a modern enter prise. As a sport it is usually dated from the ascent of the Wetterhorn by Mr Justice Wills, then Mr Alfred Wills of the junior bar, in 1854 and the English Alpine Club - which was the first of all the Alpine Clubs - was not formed until three years later. Explorers and men of science, however, had had adventures on the mountains before the sportsmen repaired to them for athletic exercise, so that the threads of the story of the pastime have to be picked up from somewhat further back. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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