The Early Alpine Guides

Description

Published by Phoenix House, 1949, 1st Edition, No D/w, spine faded, some foxing edges, 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).