Morality in the Oxygen
E.S. Turner: Tobogganing, 14 December 2000
How the English Made the Alps
by Jim Ring.
Murray, 287 pp., £19.99, September 2000,0 7195 5689 9 Show More
by Jim Ring.
Murray, 287 pp., £19.99, September 2000,
Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps
by Fergus Fleming.
Granta, 398 pp., £20, November 2000,1 86207 379 1 Show More
by Fergus Fleming.
Granta, 398 pp., £20, November 2000,
“... Lincolnshire clergyman, a 19-year-old Harrovian and a Chamonix guide. They were the casualties of Edward Whymper’s successful assault on the Matterhorn in 1865, lost during the descent; a tragedy supposedly honoured by nature with an enormous fog-bow, incorporating two crosses. Whymper survived with two Swiss guides, father and son. The English chaplain of ... ”