The Mountains of Youth

Description

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1925, 1st UK Edition, foxing throughout especially prelims and edges, o/w V.G.   Association Copy – see below.  Arnold Lunn was a skier, mountaineer and writer, knighted in 1952 for his “services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations”. He founded the Oxford University Mountaineering Club, the Alpine Ski Club, the Ladies Ski Club and the Kandahar Ski Club, as well as inventing the slalom ski race in 1922, insisting that speed down the course was more critical than style. This volume was the first in English on ski-mountaineering and details many of Lunn’s pioneer ski-climbs and ski-tours across the Oberland, Monte Rosa and Eiger from 1908 onwards.

An interesting association copy as this volume comes from the library of Dr Charles Warren, who took part in three British Everest Expeditions in the 1930’s, firstly the reconnaissance in 1935 under Eric Shipton on which trip Warren found the body of Maurice Wilson who had attempted an ill-fated solo ascent of Everest in 1934, then subsequent expeditions in 1936 (under Hugh Ruttledge) and 1938 (under Bill Tilman) during which Warren became good friends with a young Tenzing Norgay. The book is signed by Warren with his address “Charles Warren, Buck Croft, Felsted, Essex.”.