A beautiful book on mountain climbing full of the romance and daring that characterized the pione...

'"e;Why do you climb?"e; The mountaineer has no answer to this question. The best things ...

Frank Smythe's Camp Six is one of the greatest Everest accounts ever written. It is the story of ...

'We went to Kangchenjunga in response not to the dictates of science, but in obedience to that in...

In Mountaineering Holiday, Frank Smythe records 'an outstanding Alpine climbing season' - his 193...

In his delightful The Valley of Flowers, mountaineer Frank Smythe takes you on a botanical expedi...

Frank Smythe's fascinating book Kamet Conquered tells of his successful bid to make the first asc...

';The predominant note was peace; not the faintest breeze ruffled the herbage and the silence was...

1935 durchquerte Alpinist Frank Smythe mit einem Freund die Tiroler Alpen von der Silvretta zu de...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

First published in 1940, The Adventures of a Mountaineer is a highly detailed account of the expe...