The Romance of Mountaineering

Description

Published by J.M. Dent, London, 1946, 2nd Edition (1st Edition was in 1935), Insc, D/w, Nr. Fine.   With 41 collotype reproductions from photographs, and maps and diagrams, this volume, to use the author’s words ‘attempts to take a view of the whole life-story of the winning of mountains by men, with its emotions as well as its deeds’. R.L.G (‘Graham’) Irving (1877-1969) was an English schoolmaster, author and mountaineer who is perhaps best remembered for introducing one of his Winchester pupils, one George Leigh Mallory, to the Alps in 1904 as a 17 year old.