The Bolivian Andes, A Record of Climbing & Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900

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Published by Harper & Brothers, London and New York, 1901, 1st Edition, top edge gilt, uncut, original cloth, Fine.   Sir William Martin Conway (1856-1937), 1st Baron Conway of Allington, was was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.  This volume recounts the first major climbing expedition to the area.  Conway’s party made the first ascent of Illimani (6,402 m) and just failed to summit on Ancohuma (6,430 m).  They also prepared the first topographic survey of the range.  Conway was President of the Alpine Club (1902-1904) and wrote a number of mountaineering and polar books, the other most significant ones being Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalaya (1894), The Alps from End to End (1895), The First Crossing of Spitsbergen (1897), Aconcagua and Tierra del Fuego: A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration (1902), No Man’s Land, A History of Spitsbergen (1906) and Mountain Memories (1920).