Author: PILLEY,DOROTHY (MRS I.A. RICHARDS)
Title: Climbing Days
Description: London: Secker & Warburg, 1965. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Very Good + Copy of this hardcover Book in Publisher's original grey cloth with silver title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.Illustrated with over 32 pages of plates.Maps as endpapers.One previous owner's name to the half title page.Dorothy Pilley Richards born in 1894 she was a prominent mountaineer. She began climbing in Wales and joined the Fell & Rock Climbing Club, later helping found the Pinnacle Club in 1921.In the 1920s, she climbed extensively in the Alps, Britain, and North America after her marriage to educatorand Literary critic Ivor Richards.In 1928, she made the celebrated first ascent of the north west ridge of the Dent Blanche in the Swiss Alps, with Joseph Georges, Antoine Georges and her husband.The book has a little age toning to the text block edges.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness,8vo 352pp Second Edition [1965]. Very Good+ .

Keywords: Climbing Mountaineering


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