me." By Francis A. Long. 10s. 6d, The epic nature of the recent attempts to scale Mount Everest, and their historical significance, will be more completely realised when one has read this succinct and absorbing history of mountaineering. To the ancient mind, the mountains were places of awe and revelation, for the medieval they held terror and tales of fiery dragons. Pe:- rare, who climbed Mount Ventoux (6,432 feet), in Provence, seems to have been the first to show an apredation of high scenery that reads as curiously modern. Mr. Collins describes the conquest of the Alps, of Ararat, where no remnants of the Ark, as legend told, were found, of Alaskan ranges, of Mount Cook, the Andes, and the Mountains of the Moon, so long clouded in mystery. This record fof endurance, danger, failure and ultimate triumph is as inspiring that of Arctic exploration, and less widely known, There are still virgin peaks among the Canadian Rockies that no human being has sealed, yet must their mystery yield eventually to mortal daring. The book is illustrated with unusual action photographs taken at great altitudes,
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