Alpine Tragedy

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Published by George Allen & Unwin, 1948, 1st UK Edition, light foxing endpapers edges, D/w (a little wear at edges), V.G.   Stories of some of the tragic incidents from Alpine history by eminent Swiss climber Charles Gos (1885-1949).  ‘Among the tragedies recorded are those on the conquest of the Matterhorn; the death of a famous guide in a winter avalanche on the Haut de Cry; the total destruction of a party of eleven men in a storm at the summit of Mont Blanc; the unsolved mystery of the disappearance of the Count of Villanova; the annihilation of an English family on the Dent de Veisivi; and many others’.  ‘Recounts over 20 well-known nineteenth Century Alpine accidents’ (Neate).