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THE ALPINE CLUB REGISTER 1857-1863 Volume 1 A.L. Mumm, 1923 1st edition Very Good
By Mumm, A.L.
Price: $450.00


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London, 1923. 391 pp. Bound in its original and handsome red cloth with gold lettering. The spine lettering is still bright and flawless. A waterstain shows on the lower part of front and rear cover, not affecting contents, else Fine. 

This is Volume One of projected five volume project. The Volumes cover these years, climbers are sorted by year of election to the Alpine Club.

Vol 1  1856-1863    Published in 1923
Vol 2  1964-1876    Published in 1925   
Vol 3  1877-1890    Published in 1928
Vol 4  1891-1895    Not  Published. Alpine Club has the completed Typescript 
Vol 5  1896-1901    Not  Published. Alpine Club has the completed Typescript 

One of the most amazing and tediously prepared chronicles in mountaineering literature. Traces the climbing careers and lives of every member of the English Alpine Club elected during the first six years of its existence. An incredible compendium of early Alpine and Himalayan climbing. 

Can you imagine how huge these volumes would be to chronicle climbers such as we have today, who are climbing not just the highest few dozen Alps Peaks, but everything ovr 3000 meters or even lower!

A.L. MUMM
Arnold L.  Mumm was a  lifetime member of the Alpine Club and the Alpine Club of Canada. Arnold Mumm played a prominent role in the early exploration of the Canadian Rockies. Mumm, Arnold L. 

The UK Alpine Club started with 31 members in 1857, by 1900 it had 800 members. Contrary to common belief, most were not 'gentlemen', men with titles an inherited wealth and estates. They were mostly businessmen, bankers, finance, clergy, teachers, physicians, lawyers, public officials. Most had University degrees, 34% from Oxbridge.  

They were responsible for many of the first and early ascents in the Alps, the Golden and Silver Age. Their impact was not so much the actual climbing of the peaks as the publication of their climbing accounts, which inspired new climbers, informed old ones, and was enjoyed by a wide swath of the public.... and still is.

Mumm actually completed two more volumes of this register of the climbs of early members, carrying through 1900.  The dates are when the members were elected to the AC, not the dates of their climbs.

I (Michael Chessler) have had in my possession for many years the personal copy of the AC Register of all 3 Volumess previously owned by J. Monroe Thorington, not only a pioneering climber, but a bibliophile who loved climbing books and the history of climbing. In his copy, both in annotations and separate typed pages, are his recordings of many climbs by American members of the Alpine Club, that he intended to give to the AC for updating their records. I do not know if this was ever done.


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