The Alps from End to End
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- Author: William Martin Conway
- Date Published: November 2012
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108054782
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During a life of many and varied interests, the art historian and mountaineer William Martin Conway (1856–1927) served as a professor of art at Liverpool and Cambridge, a member of parliament, director-general of the Imperial War Museum, and president of the Alpine Club. He climbed extensively in Europe and the Himalayas, mapped part of the Karakoram range (for which he was knighted), and named several mountains. In 1894 he walked the length of the Alps accompanied by two Gurkha soldiers. The celebrated expedition took the party sixty-five days to complete. Conway and his companions climbed twenty-one peaks, including Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau and Grossglockner, and traversed thirty-nine mountain passes. Published a year later, this is the illustrated second edition of Conway's popular personal account of the expedition, in which he documents the party's progress on a daily basis.
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- Date Published: November 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108054782
- length: 606 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.88kg
- contains: 101 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introductory
2. The Maritime Alps
3. The Cottian Alps
4. The western Graians
5. Mont Blanc
6. The Buet, Chamonix to S. Maurice
7. The Bernese Oberland, western part, S. Maurice to the Gemmi
8. Monte Rosa
9. Bernese Oberland
10. Uri and Glaurus
11. Mountain falls
12. The Rhätikon and Silvretta groups
13. Oetz and Stubai regions
14. Zillerthal and Venediger groups
15. Gross Glockner and eastward
16. Tirolese scrambles in 1875
17. A run through the western and central Alps
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