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Summit: 150 Years of the Alpine Club
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ISBN
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9780007203642
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Publisher
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HarperCollins UK
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Subject
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Sports & Outdoor Recreation, Education
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Binding
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HARDCOVER
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Pages
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256
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Year
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2007
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Description
Founded in 1857, Britain's Alpine Club was the world's first mountaineering society. Its history is the history of mountaineering, and from the beginning, its members have been at the leading edge of worldwide mountaineering.xA0;ThisxA0;bookxA0;begins with the storyxA0;of the Club's inception, then takes readers through the evolution of the Alpine tradition, the development of climbing between the wars,xA0;and on toxA0;postwar triumphs. It explores the Golden Decade of the 8000m peaks in the 1950s as well as how improvements in technology have enabled ever steeper faces and walls to be conquered. Illustrated with a lavish selection of photos from the Alpine Club archives, this book is as handsome as it is compelling.
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Author Biography
George Band is the youngest member of John Hunt's original team that conquered Everest. He went on to climb the lower but technically harder peak Kangchenjunga in 1955, and has since been more closely associated with mountaineering than any other team member.
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