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Para quién es
For readers who love mountain history, the Alps, and a calm, dry Victorian voice describing real danger, with guides, partners, wild weather and trust on the rope.
De qué trata este libro
Above the Snow Line is a book of mountaineering sketches by Clinton Thomas Dent, a London surgeon who spent his holidays on the high peaks of the Alps. It was published in 1885 and gathers his accounts of climbs made during the 1870s and the years just after. Dent wrote for readers who loved the mountains, and for those who wondered why anyone would risk them.
The book comes from the years when climbers were still finding out what the Alps held. Many great summits had been climbed, but the sharpest and hardest needles of rock were still unsolved. In these pages you meet the cold, the early starts, the guides, and the slow work of finding a way up. Let us begin with the man behind the book.
En este resumen
- 1A surgeon who climbed for pleasureFree
- 2The hard rock needles of Chamonix
- 3Guides, partners, and trust on the rope
- 4Weather, risk, and a changing sport
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A surgeon who climbed for pleasure
Dent was not a professional adventurer. He was a medical man in London, and the mountains were what he did with his free summers. That fact shapes the whole book, because he writes as an amateur who is serious about his sport but never solemn about it.
In his day the Alpine Club, founded in London, gave climbers a community and a journal for their stories. Dent belonged to it and later served as its president. His sketches read like talks given to fellow members, full of shared jokes and shared respect for the hills.
The book is not one long tale. It is a set of separate climbs and mountain days, each with its own place and mood. This lets you dip into one chapter at a time, or follow the author through a whole decade of seasons spent above the snow line.
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