Mountain Craft
by Geoffrey Winthrop Young
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Young, Geoffrey Winthrop, 1876-1958
- Original Publication
- United States: Charles Scribner's Sons,1920.
- Credits
- ellinora and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
- Subject
- Mountaineering
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 67729
- Release Date
- March 28, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MOUNTAIN CRAFT
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.PREFACE
- 6.CONTENTS
- 7.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 8.MOUNTAIN CRAFT
- 9.CHAPTER I MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP — Management In Anticipation — Leadership in Action — Social Composition of the Party — Walking Manners — Choice of District — Incidental Duties — WEATHER — TRAINING — PACE — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.CHAPTER II EQUIPMENT FOR THE ALPS — Equipment — Outfit — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.CHAPTER III GUIDED AND GUIDELESS MOUNTAINEERING — The Management of Guides
- 12.CHAPTER IV ROCK CLIMBING — UNSOUND ROCK — Unusual Rock — CLIMBING DOWN — PEGS AND AIDS — THE AXE ON ROCKS — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.CHAPTER V CLIMBING IN COMBINATION
- 14.CHAPTER VI CORRECTIVE METHOD — Human Fallibility — Mountain Perversity
- 15.CHAPTER VII ICE AND SNOW CRAFT — ICE CRAFT — SNOW CRAFT — GLISSADING — On Ice — On Snow — On Other Grounds — FOOTNOTES:
- 16.CHAPTER VIII RECONNOITRING — Things Seen — The Half-seen — The Unseen
- 17.CHAPTER IX MOUNTAINEERING ON SKI — The Alpine Calendar — Snow Craft — Winter Snow — Spring Snow — The Effect of Föhn and Thaw — Summer Snow — Snow Avalanches — Classification of Avalanches — Summer Snow Avalanches — Tactics on Avalanche Ground — The High Alps in Winter — Glaciers in Winter — The High Alps in Spring — The Spring Time-table — Summer and Autumn Ski-ing — Summer Ski — FOOTNOTES:
- 18.CHAPTER X MOUNTAIN PHOTOGRAPHY
- 19.CHAPTER XI MOUNTAINEERING IN TROPICAL COUNTRIES — Health — Equipment — Management — FOOTNOTES:
- 20.CHAPTER XII MOUNTAINEERING IN THE ARCTIC (SPITSBERGEN)
- 21.CHAPTER XIII THE CAUCASUS
- 22.CHAPTER XIV THE MOUNTAINS OF CORSICA — FOOTNOTES:
- 23.CHAPTER XV THE HIMALAYA — General Considerations — The Chief Districts — Personal Matters — FOOTNOTES:
- 24.CHAPTER XVI THE MOUNTAINS OF NORWAY
- 25.CHAPTER XVII THE SOUTHERN ALPS OF NEW ZEALAND — FOOTNOTES:
- 26.CHAPTER XVIII THE PYRENEES
- 27.CHAPTER XIX THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS — FOOTNOTES:
- 28.INDEX
- 29.Transcriber’s Notes
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