ON HIGH HILLS: MEMORIES OF THE ALPS Geoffrey Winthrop Young 1928 1st USA ed Hardcover Very Good (Young, Geoffrey Winthrop)

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New Yoprk, Dutton, 1928, 1st USA edition (Identical to UK first edition and printed in the UK by the same printer. There is no date in the book, but Neate says the UK edition is dated 1927 and the US is dated 1928.) 368 pp, 24 b/w photos. Thick green cloth hardcover with former owner's name on the front endpaper. The owner's name is Richard Irvin, an well known American cllimber who was in the 1958 Karakoram expedition that did the first ascent of Gasherbrum I in 1958.) The book title and author's name gold stamped on the spine and front cover. There is no wear to the spine or front and rear covers, and the pages themselves are quite clean and not foxed or stained. Overall Near Fine. [Neate Y21.] "This book contains accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose." This book, On High Hills, went through many editions in the UK. It was THE book to read to fire up young British climbers to become competent and experienced climbers on all terrain. G.W. Young was one of George Mallory's mentors. The WW2 USA climbers emulated their British idols. Contents: Hills and a Boy; The Gateway to the Mountains; Some Early Ventures; Finding the Way; Finding the Fellow-Traveller; Ridges and Failures; Weisshorn Ways; Days with a Guide; Days with Friends; Suspense and Colour; Moods and Shadows; Twin Ridges of the Jorasses; A Memory of the Mischabel; Mont Blanc by the way; The Great Side of the Gr�pon and The Last Alpine Climbs. Wikipedia: Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876 � 1958) was a British climber, poet and educator, and author of several notable books on mountaineering. He was very well known and respected throught the British climbing world into the 1950s. His book Mountaincraft was an thorough compendium of climbing techniques on rock, ice and mountains. Young began rock climbing shortly before his first term at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Classics and won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse two years running. While there, Young wrote a humorous college climbing guide called The Roof-Climber's Guide to Trinity, in part a parody of early alpine guidebooks, in part a useful reference work for those, like him, who were keen to clamber up Cambridge's highest spires. During the Edwardian Period, and up until the outbreak of hostilities heralding World War I, Young made several new and difficult ascents in the Alps, including noted routes on the Zermatt Breithorn (the 'Younggrat'), the west ridge of the Gspaltenhorn, on the west face of the Weisshorn, and a dangerous and rarely repeated route on the south face of the T�schhorn. His finest rock climb was the Mer de Glace face of the Aiguille du Gr�pon. In 1911, with H. O. Jones, he ascended the Brouillard ridge of Mont Blanc and made the first complete traverse of the west ridge of the Grandes Jorasses, and the first descent of the ridge to the Col des Hirondelles. His favoured, but not only, guide was Joseph Knubel of St Niklaus. Winthrop Young also put up new routes on the crags of the Lake District and Wales. He was elected president of the Climbers' Club in 1913, and he organised the Pen-y-Pass gatherings that propelled the advancement of rock climbing and included such technical luminaries as J. M. Archer Thompson, George Leigh Mallory, Siegfried Herford, John Percy Farrar and Oscar Eckenstein. These parties, beginning in earnest about 1907, and sometimes reaching sixty men, women and children, flooded the hotel and overflowed into Eckenstein's miner's cabin and various tents. They came to an end in 1914. During the war, Young was at first a correspondent for the liberal Daily News, but later, as a conscientious objector, was active in the FAU, the Friends' Ambulance Unit. He received several decorations, but on 31 August 1917 an explosion caused injuries requiring the amputation of one of his legs. After the amputation, Young walked sixteen miles in two days to avoid being captured by the Austrians. He continued alpine climbing for a number of years � using a specially designed artificial leg that accepted a number of attachments for snow and rock work � and climbed the Matterhorn in 1928 (Then considered a very serious climb. It was pre fixed cables.) He wrote a book about his one-legged climbs, called Mountains With A Difference.
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