The Early Alpine Guides

Description

Published by Phoenix House, 1949, 1st Edition, D/w (frayed at edges and small piece missing from spine causing fading at that point on the spine), V.G.   Biographical sketches of the guides who led mountaineers in the Golden Age of alpine exploration.   Ronald William Clark (1916-1987) was a prolific British author on a wide range of subjects, including over a dozen titles on mountaineering.  These included The Splendid Hills: The Life and Photographs of Vittorio Sella (1948), The Victorian Mountaineers (1953), A Picture History of Mountaineering (1956), Mountaineering in Britain (1957, with E.C. Pyatt), An Eccentric in the Alps: The Story of the Rev. W.A.B. Coolidge (1959), The Day the Rope Broke (1965) and Men Myths and Mountains (1976).