My Home in the Alps (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Mrs. Main

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332160468 ISBN 13 : 9781332160464

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover the world of Alpine guides, glaciers, and rugged high-country life with clear, illustrated insight.
This edition draws the reader into the practical knowledge and first-hand experiences of climbing culture in the Alps. Through accessible prose and engaging anecdotes, it explains how guides are trained, what makes a top-tier mountaineer, and how glaciers move, break, and shape the mountains we admire. You’ll glimpse the daily life, challenges, and courage that define high-altitude travel, all grounded in the author’s observations and stories.

- Learn how a first-rate guide grows from youth on the mountains to skilled leadership on rope and snow.
- See how glaciers behave, from ice formations to crevasses, moulins, moraines, and the strange blue of glacier ice.
- Understand the careful balance between caution and boldness that guides must master in dangerous terrain.
- Enjoy vivid scenes from fieldwork, examinations of guides, and memorable encounters with climbers and porters.

Ideal for readers of nature travel, mountaineering history, and early alpine exploration, this book offers practical context and memorable narration for anyone curious about the Alps.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from My Home in the Alps

In this little volume, much of the matter in which first appeared in the St. Moritz Post, or, as it is now called, the Alpine Post, I have jotted down a few things of interest to the ordinary traveller in Switzerland. To climbers, my notes will be but a thrice-told tale, and one which, doubtless, many of them could tell far better, while not a few of them have already told it elsewhere. The idea of publishing these trifling papers came to me through the necessity of replying to many questions on the subjects to which I refer; for, living as I do in Switzerland, I naturally am supposed to be more familiar with the peculiarities of the country and people than is the ordinary tourist.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332160468
• ISBN 13: 9781332160464
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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