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Climbs on Alpine Peaks

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By Abate Achille Ratti, Mountaineer (Now Pope Pius XI),   Translated by J.E.C. Eaton,   With a Foreword by Douglas Freshfield,   and an Introduction by the Right Rev. L.C. Casartelli

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Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1925, 2nd Impression (of the 1st UK Edition of 1923), foxing edges and first and last few pages, label mark, No D/w, Good.   Achille Ratti (1857-1939) was not only an academic within the Catholic Church who went on to become Pope Pius XI in 1922, he was also an avid mountaineer who reached the summits of Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc and Presolana in Lombardy.

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Weight0.5 kg