In the summer of 1926, Prince Chichiba who is a keen mountaineer, climbed the Matterhorn and Schatterhorn peaks of the Swiss Alps. The finest record he has made in mountaineering was during his climb of the Swiss Alps, undertaken first in May and then between August and September, 1926. The first climb was made for the most part on skis to the Oberland Alba, Mr, Arnold Lunn, the famous British skier, guiding the Prince's party. In the 1925 edition of the British Ski Year Book, Mr. Luna has the following to say relative to Prince Chichibu:
"As a skier, he is one of the easiest people to follow on a rope that I know. The pure' stem tum is the key to rope ski-ing and the Prince does this to perfection. On the glaciers, his steadiness was invaluable, and he ran quite as fast a3 was comfortable for the mau Prince Chichibu holds the distinetion of the being the first to undertake roped ski-ing, been recognized as surpassing. any other" Japanese mountaineer-in this particular-art. The Prince has also reached the summit of the Finsterahorn and after a perilous climb up the Shreckhorn has. descended the Andersongrat, After this, he went to the border district between Italy and Switzerland where he went up the rock pyramid of the Matterhorn and later explore ed the peaks of the Monte Rosa, Recently the Alpine Club of London decided to make him an honourars member, Prince Chichibu being the} third Japanese to become a member, of that Club. So intent a mountaineer is he that, whenever he proceeds to the Japan Alps, his mother, the Dowager Empress, haa} to secure a pledge from him that he will not be unduly rash, and she. is said to be extremely ill at ense until he returns to Tokyo again.
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