num_pages: 200
description: Contains:Alpine prelude / Othmar Gurtner -- Ebnefluh / Ernst Reiss -- Torre Venezia / Ruedi Schtaz -- Aiguille du Plan / Hans-Rudolf von Gunten -- The history of a glacier / James D. Forbes -- Glacier ice / Gurtner -- Field research and expeditionary mountaineering / Forbes -- University Peak Alaska / Sheldon Brooks -- Mount McKinley Alaska / Bradford Washburn -- The Virungas (volcanoes) / Arnold Heim -- Kangchenjunga / George Band -- Happy Mountain / Jean Franco -- Makalu 1955 / Andr Vialatte -- Kamet 1955 / Nandu Jayal -- Lofty summits / Albert Eggler -- Lhotse 1956 / Reiss -- Everest 1956 / Ernst Schmied -- The Arandu people and their Chogo Lungma / Wilhelm Kick -- The peaks around Chogo Lungma / Reinhard Sander -- Place names in Baltistan / Kick.
language: English
title: The Mountain World: 1956/57
publisher: George Allen & Unwin