Scrambles Among the Alps in the Years 1860-69
Edition: 5th edition
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: May 14, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780486289724
Subjects: Classic travel writing; Other prose: 19th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Description and travel; Travel - General; Special Interest - Adventure; History: American; Alps; Essays & Travelogues; Travel / Adventure; Whymper, Edward; Biography; 19th century; Mountaineering; Mountaineers
Description: English artist Edward Whymper describes his many mountain climbing expeditions in the Alps including his successful scaling of the Matterhorn in 1865.