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Hard Cover/Stitched. Condición: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Text/As New & Bright. Vintage 1942, First Edition, First Thus. Green illustrated boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace edge wear, under mylar. Illustrated w/8 plates in colour, and 22 illustrations in b/w from collections of museums, libraries & galleries. Author, mountaineer, botanist, photographer, F.S. Smythe (1900 - 1946) was member of the Alpine Club, which he joined in 1902, and took part in Mount Everest expeditions of 1933, 1936, & 1938. 48 pgs, 6 chapters: 1, The Pioneers; 2, The Golden Age; 3, The Fight for the Matterhorn; 4, The Growth of Mountaineering; 5, The Himalayas: Mount Everest; and, 6, A Personal Adventure. The last chapter was included at the special request of the Editor who was mindful that the majority of the readers may not have been mountaineers themselves, and would find "a vivid account . of a climber's actual experience" elucidating. Fine copy. Archival Photos & Illustrations (ilustrador).…