Here you will find the literature of Mountaineering from the Alps to the Andes, De Saussure, Edward Whymper and the Matterhorn from Zermatt, Albert Smith and Mont Blanc from Chamonix, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay, the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, George Band and Joe Brown the first to the ‘top‘ of Kangchenjunga.
The Abraham brothers, pioneer climbers in North Wales and Skye and with O.G. Jones in the Lake District.
The history of Mountaineering and Climbing, recorded in the journals of the Alpine Club, the Fell & Rock Climbing Club, the Himalayan Club and others.
Many books are signed by their authors, great mountaineers, Band, Bonatti, Bonington, Brown, Bruce, Conway, Coolidge, Desmaison, Diemberger, Finch, Franco, Habeler, Hardie, Haston, Herzog, Hillary, Hunt, Ichac, Lachenal, Languepin, Lowe, Messner, Noel, Noyce, Rebuffat, Roch, Shipton, Smythe, Streather, Tensing, Terray, Tilman, Tyndall, Ward, Whillans, Whymper, Wills. |
