The Climber's Collection: 6 Classic Books on Mountaineering
Classic Essays and Expeditions in Alpine and Himalayan ClimbingBy George Ingle Finch, Norman Collie, Arnold Lunn, Michael T. H. Sadler, Julian S. Huxley, Norman Egerton Young, Hugh Kingsmill Lunn, H. E. G. Tyndale, N. T. Huxley, H. R. Pope, Arnold H. M. Lunn, C. G. Bruce, W. H. Le Mesurier
Length39h 24m
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The Climber's Collection gathers six classic books of mountaineering into a capacious record of ascent, risk, observation, and imagination. Across expedition narrative, practical reflection, scientific description, travel writing, and philosophical meditation, the volume traces climbing's transformation from Victorian adventure into a modern discipline of skill and endurance. Accounts of high-altitude ambition and Alpine practice stand beside searching reflections on weather, landscape, companionship, and the ethics of exposure, making the collection valuable both as literature and as cultural history. Its contributors—among them climbers, Himalayan expedition figures, scientists, educators, journalists, and literary essayists—represent the overlapping worlds that shaped twentieth-century mountaineering. Their varied professional and intellectual backgrounds illuminate climbing as more than recreation: it becomes a site for geographical inquiry, imperial-era exploration, physical culture, technological adaptation, and debates about courage and character. Collectively, these voices situate mountaineering within the broader development of modern outdoor writing and adventure literature. Recommended for climbers, historians, and readers of travel literature, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare perspectives within a single volume. Its six works reward close reading for their practical knowledge, evocative prose, and shifting conceptions of the mountain world. The dialogue among these texts reveals how ascent has continually invited both individual testimony and collective cultural meaning.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length39 hrs 24 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Making of a Mountaineer
2PREFACE
3CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS
4CHAPTER II CLIMBING IN CORSICA
5CHAPTER III THE WETTERHORN
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6CHAPTER IV THE JUNGFRAU
7CHAPTER V THE JUNGFRAU AND THE JUNGFRAUJOCH
8CHAPTER VI ON SKIS IN THE BERNESE OBERLAND
9CHAPTER VII ON SKIS IN THE BERNESE OBERLAND (continued)
10CHAPTER VIII A WINTER’S NIGHT ON THE TÖDI
11CHAPTER IX THE BIFERTENSTOCK
12CHAPTER X MONTE ROSA
13CHAPTER XI THE TWINS
14CHAPTER XII THE MATTERHORN—A BEGINNER’S IMPRESSIONS
15CHAPTER XIII THE MATTERHORN
16CHAPTER XIV THE DENT D’HÉRENS
17CHAPTER XV MONT BLANC
18CHAPTER XVI MONT BLANC FROM THE SOUTH
19CHAPTER XVII TWO CHAMONIX AIGUILLES
20CHAPTER XVIII THE AIGUILLE DU DRU
21CHAPTER XIX TOWARDS MOUNT EVEREST
22CHAPTER XX MOUNT EVEREST
23CHAPTER XXI MOUNTAINEERING PHOTOGRAPHY
24Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges
25Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges
26PREFACE
27CHAPTER III
28CHAPTER V
29CHAPTER VIII
30THE ALPS
31A CHUILIONN
32PREHISTORIC CLIMBING NEAR WASTDALE HEAD
33THE OROMANIACAL QUEST
34Oxford Mountaineering Essays
35Oxford Mountaineering Essays
36PREFACE
37THE MOUNTAINS IN GREEK POETRY BY NORMAN EGERTON YOUNG (Corpus Christi College)
38A JOURNEY BY HUGH KINGSMILL LUNN (New College)
39PASSES BY N. T. HUXLEY (Balliol)
40THE MOUNTAINS OF YOUTH BY ARNOLD H. M. LUNN (Balliol)
41From Mr. EDWARD ARNOLD’S List of Publications
42The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922
43PREFACE
44MAPS
45INTRODUCTION
46CHAPTER I TO THE BASE CAMP
47CHAPTER II THE ASSAULT ON THE MOUNTAIN
48CHAPTER III THE RETURN BY KHARTA
49CHAPTER IV THE PROBLEM
50CHAPTER V THE HIGHEST CAMP
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