Excerpt from Mountains and Mountain-Climbing: Records of Adventure and Enterprise Among the Famous Mountains of the World That it has strong attractions for the robust and hold; that it has been of good service to Science; and that it tends to cherish in the youth and manhood of a nation a chivalrous fearlessness and a heroic love of adventure. And hence we are inclined to hope that the following pages, descriptive as they are of the ascents of some of the world's most remark able mountains, will find an eager and a ...
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Excerpt from Mountains and Mountain-Climbing: Records of Adventure and Enterprise Among the Famous Mountains of the World That it has strong attractions for the robust and hold; that it has been of good service to Science; and that it tends to cherish in the youth and manhood of a nation a chivalrous fearlessness and a heroic love of adventure. And hence we are inclined to hope that the following pages, descriptive as they are of the ascents of some of the world's most remark able mountains, will find an eager and a grateful public. They are intended not only for readers who have climbed mountains, but for those who wish they could climb them, or who are wisely of opinion that when they cannot climb in propria persond, the next best thing is to read about more fortunate enthusiasts. And then they are also intended for all who can sympathize with deeds of daring, or who find a rare enjoyment in studying descriptions of Nature's wilder, grander, and sublimer landscapes. For our little volume is dedicated not only to the mountain-climbers, but to the Mountains in all their high pure beauty and elevated mag. 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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