New York, 1963, 1st American edition. 224 pp, photos, 3 maps. Shipton's famous traverse of the southern ice-cap of Patagonia. A record of four expeditions made in four successive summer seasons, done partly as travel/adventure, partly as mountain climbing, and partly as scientific investigation. As well as establishing the existence of a hitherto disputed active volcano, the team also went mountaineering in the previously unclimbed peask of the Tierra del Fuego. Shipton gives us an intimate look at camping and climbing in Patagonia and was an experienced climber (six Everest parties, the leader of the Sharsgam expedition to Karakoram, as well as climbs in the Pamir, Tien Shan and Kuen Lun ranges). DJ, Fine.
