SNOW ON THE HILLS Frank Smythe 1946 1st ed Large format Hardcover No DJ (Smythe, Frank)

	Item #: OP3066-847 SNOW ON THE HILLS Frank Smythe 1946 1st ed Large format Hardcover No DJ By Smythe, Frank Price: $14.95 List Price: $35.00 You Save $20.05 (57%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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London, Adam and Charles Black, 1946, 1st edition. 119 pp, 47 b/w photos by the author. Large format, 13''x10''x 3/4''. Beige cloth hardcover with blue title patches with silver lettering on spine and front cover and a dust jacket. The book is in very nice condition, with no edge wear, a few slight spots of fading, no writing in the book, no bookplates, foxing or stains. No Dust Jacket, the book is Fine This is the only Smythe book that is oversize, his other photo books are all 12'' x 10''. This book is not heavy but it is large format, it is 13'' tall and 10'' wide, 3/4'' thick. Extra postage will be requested for Priority Mail or International Mail as it is larger than the USPS flat rate envelopes. The book has photos and text, with photographic and philosophical observations by the renowned alpinist and photographer, including chapters on the British Hills, the Alps, the Canadian Rockies and even Mt McKinley in Alaska, and the Himalayas. [Neate S130.] From Wikipedia: Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe (1900 � 1949), was a British mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in the Alps and the Himalaya. He identified a region that he named the 'Valley of Flowers,' now a protected park. His ascents include two new routes on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc, Kamet, and attempts on Kangchenjunga and Mount Everest in the 1930s. It was said that he had a tendency for irascibility, that some of his mountaineering contemporaries said 'decreased with altitude.' Smythe was educated in Switzerland after an initial period at Berkhamsted School, trained as an electrical engineer and worked for brief periods with the Royal Air Force and Kodak before devoting himself to writing and public lecturing. Smythe enjoyed mountaineering, photography, collecting plants, and gardening; he toured as a lecturer; and he wrote a total of twenty-seven books. Smythe's focused approach is well documented, not only through his own writings, but by his contemporaries and later works. Among his many public lectures, Smythe gave at least several to the Royal Geographical Society, his first being in 1931 titled 'Explorations in Garhwal around Kamet,' his second in 1947 titled 'An Expedition to the Lloyd George Mountains, North-East British Columbia.' One of his books is on the climbs in the Canadian Rockies. Before the jet age, most British climbers went to the Alps by comfortable train, rather than spend weeks travelling by ship to remote mountains across the globe. Smythe was a prodigious writer and produced many popular books. However, his book The Kangchenjunga Adventure launched Smythe as a legitimate and respected author. As he was in his forties during the Second World War, he served in the Canadian Rockies as a mountaineer training officer for the Lovat Scouts. He went on to write two books about climbing in the Rockies, Rocky Mountains (1948) and Climbs in the Canadian Rockies (1951). Mount Smythe (10,650 ft) was named in his honor. There is also quite a bit on his Himalayan exploits in Snow on the Hills. In 1949, in Delhi, he was taken ill with food poisoning; then a succession of malaria attacks took their toll and he died on 27 June 1949, two weeks before his 49th birthday.
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