Author: Wills, Alfred.
Title: WANDERINGS AMONG THE HIGH ALPS.
Description: Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1937. New Ed. [x] + 235pp. + [i]. 16 plates from photos. Very sm. ink inscription, some very minor rubbing to cloth, spine lightly browned, in heavily repaired and rebacked d/w. with only fragments of original d/w. remaining. ¶ Blackwell’s Mountaineering Library. Neate W94. ‘Alfred Wills was an original Alpine Club member and president, 1864-5. While his ascent of the Wetterhorn was not particularly momentous, it is customarily accepted as ushering in the ‘Golden Age’ of mountaineering.

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