Excerpt from Italian Alps: Sketches in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino and Venetia I owe a double apology for the publication of this volume; in the first place to the public, secondly to my friends. Mountaineering' has been by this time fully de scribed by very competent writers. No new book is likely to have any chance of rivalling the popularity of the first series of Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, ' or of the dramatic story of the Matterhorn, as told and illustrated by Mr. E. Whymper. There is no longer ...
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Excerpt from Italian Alps: Sketches in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino and Venetia I owe a double apology for the publication of this volume; in the first place to the public, secondly to my friends. Mountaineering' has been by this time fully de scribed by very competent writers. No new book is likely to have any chance of rivalling the popularity of the first series of Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, ' or of the dramatic story of the Matterhorn, as told and illustrated by Mr. E. Whymper. There is no longer the least novelty in the small feats of gymnastics annually performed, or supposed to be performed, by members of the Alpine Club'. Few readers, I think, outside that body of enthusiasts, are eager to hear anything more of guides and glaciers, aretes and s???racs, cols, couloirs and crevasses. Such subjects recur more often than I could wish in the following pages. But in attempting to give any adequate picture of a mountain region it is impossible to leave out the snow mountains. My object has been to keep them as far as possible in their proper place in the landscape. I could not, like some tourists. 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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