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Frank Nugent

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Description:No goggles or glacier glasses, no hi-tech axes or day-glo Gore-Tex adorned Alpinists of the mid-nineteenth century. From the 1850s to the early twentieth century, the achievements of Irish mountaineers are largely obscured in British historical accounts. This sets the record straight. Frank Nugent, mountaineer-explorer, reveals a significant Irish contribution beginning with the Golden Age of Alpine Mountaineering when the first ascents of mountains like the Eiger and Weisshorn and the first traverse of the Matterhorn from Italy were by Irish climbers.Significant climbers of the time were:John Tyndall, a scientist from Carlow;John Ball MP from Dublin was the first president of the Alpine Club and led the popularisation of the sport with a series of guidebooks;Anthony Adams-Reilly from Westmeath produced the first reliable map of the Mont Blanc massif;Elizabeth Whitshed from Greystones, a pioneering woman mountaineer, was one of the first to engage in winter Alpine climbing;Valentine Ryan from Offaly is often considered the finest Alpine climber of the early twentieth century.The Alpine’s Club’s first publication in 1859 was Peaks, Passes and Glaciers, edited by John Ball. A climbing record of the Alpine Club, it was the blueprint for the Alpine Journal published annually ever since. The varied social, political and scientific backgrounds of Irish Alpine pioneers provide absorbing insights into nineteenth-century Irish society.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In Search of Peaks, Passes & Glaciers: Irish Alpin Pioneers. To get started finding In Search of Peaks, Passes & Glaciers: Irish Alpin Pioneers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 310

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2013

ISBN: 1848891784

Description: No goggles or glacier glasses, no hi-tech axes or day-glo Gore-Tex adorned Alpinists of the mid-nineteenth century. From the 1850s to the early twentieth century, the achievements of Irish mountaineers are largely obscured in British historical accounts. This sets the record straight. Frank Nugent, mountaineer-explorer, reveals a significant Irish contribution beginning with the Golden Age of Alpine Mountaineering when the first ascents of mountains like the Eiger and Weisshorn and the first traverse of the Matterhorn from Italy were by Irish climbers.Significant climbers of the time were:John Tyndall, a scientist from Carlow;John Ball MP from Dublin was the first president of the Alpine Club and led the popularisation of the sport with a series of guidebooks;Anthony Adams-Reilly from Westmeath produced the first reliable map of the Mont Blanc massif;Elizabeth Whitshed from Greystones, a pioneering woman mountaineer, was one of the first to engage in winter Alpine climbing;Valentine Ryan from Offaly is often considered the finest Alpine climber of the early twentieth century.The Alpine’s Club’s first publication in 1859 was Peaks, Passes and Glaciers, edited by John Ball. A climbing record of the Alpine Club, it was the blueprint for the Alpine Journal published annually ever since. The varied social, political and scientific backgrounds of Irish Alpine pioneers provide absorbing insights into nineteenth-century Irish society.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In Search of Peaks, Passes & Glaciers: Irish Alpin Pioneers. To get started finding In Search of Peaks, Passes & Glaciers: Irish Alpin Pioneers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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