This lively record of climbing days in the Highlands in winter and summer, storm and sun, will make an instant appeal to all mountaineers.
An enthusiastic climber, camper and tramper, Mr. Humble has the gift of being able to impart his enthusiasm into his writing, making it vital and stimulating, and, as Mr. Geoffrey Winthrop Young remarks in his appreciative foreword, the very close sympathy between the author and his subject is most strikingly conveyed by the pictures.
No great new climbs or hairbreadth escapes are described, but there is not a dull page in the book, whilst the delightful pictures which embellish the narrative have a character all their own. Never did Mr. Humble go out with photography as his main object, rather was it an incidental to a day on the mountains in his native Scotland. Yet he has achieved pictures of real merit taken with quite simple apparatus.
To say that the whole of the Highlands are covered would be an overstatement; but a very wide area from Arran to the Cairngorms and Sutherland to Arrochar has a place in its pages, and there is room also for a short account of a Swiss holiday and the author's feelings on his return to his own country. This is not a guide-book, however, but a feast of happy recollections and anecdote, a book to be treasured by all who find their greatest joys in hills and mountains. Whether camping, climbing, or walking among the bens of Scotland, Mr. Humble is supremely happy and all who share his enthusiasms will enjoy his book.
