By Frederick Burlingham (The Man who cinematographed the Matterhorn)
How to Become an Alpinist
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Published by T. Werner Laurie, London, (1912), 1st Edition, staining to front board and a little to rear board, a little wear at base of spine, light foxing to a few pages, overall G./V.G.
From the library of Noel E. Odell and Signed by Odell on the front endpaper. Odell was on the 1924 Everest expedition, was the last person to see Mallory and Irvine alive, and did the first ascent of Nanda Devi with Bill Tilman in 1936.
Burlingham’s book includes a good selection of 63 photographs (on 32 plates) of early climbers taken by the author, a good chapter on early women climbers and a final, tongue-in-cheek, short chapter entitled ‘How to Get Killed in the Alps’.
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