First Steps To Climbing

Cracked spine at FLEP, Light toning, else appears as unread, clean tight copy in dark grey cloth boards displaying minor surface/edge wear.

Quick history of – and guide to – climbing.

Includes, for example, the following: Beginnings Ancient and Modern – How to Start Climbing / Equipment: The Climber Himself – His Foot-wear and His Clothing / Rock Climbing – Mostly Preliminary / Alpine Beginnings – Snow and Ice-Craft etc.

Book adorned with beautiful photography capturing mountaineers and rock climbers as they made their perilous paths up and across terrain: the nascent technology show the modern viewer how primitively equipped these earlier pioneering mountaineers were: under-dressed in tweed and woolens, using flaxen and hemp ropes as they traversed ice and bare rock.

″The history of most of the strenuous sports is prone to dryness. Yet in mountain climbing some of the most outstanding first steps in the progress of any sport may prove interesting and even useful. There was nothing "dry" about the first recorded ascent, when Noah and his mixed party reached the summit of Ararat; and between that and the recent attacks on Mount Everest a tremendous store of mountain knowledge has been garnered. During Biblical times high places were objects of worship, reverence, and even visitation. Yet in more recent ages strange superstitions had grown and mountains had become the repulsive haunts of evil spirits, dragons, and other strange things to be dreaded." (p.13) Abraham proceeds to give a galloping history of British Alpinism and instructions for the novice mountaineer

Nice enough to consider "collectible"

Rock climbing …. Rare Edition, date and Publisher.

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