The Archive · 1935

A New Peak

Rouse Mvsrenr Mouwrau A Ski Adventure-—By Sir Norman Watson. Bt. and Eéward J. King. acc. With Foreword by FS Smythe. Edward Arnold, London. i8/-.

The Keynote of this pleasantly written book is that it describes a ki-mountaineering" expedition. Until recently skiing has been looked upon ity mountaineers—looked down upon fas a sport indulged in for a few reeks in the year on the lower slopes. JGradually skiers have invaded the precincts of the mountaineers and mountaineers have joined the ranks fof the skiers, till ski have come to be acknowledged, first as a pleasant adjunct to, now' often as the chief fyespen of a mountaineering expedi-

There is a special interest in the locale of the expedition described, the neighbourhood of Mount Wad-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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