Gos, Charles [Barnes, Malcolm trans].

Alpine Tragedy.

London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, no year (c.1948). 16 cm x 23.7 cm. X, 282 pages. 35 photographs on plates at rear. 6 maps. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very bright, clean and sharp cornered.

Account of various fatal accidents in the High Alps between the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century.
Includes, for example, the following: The Matterhorn Catastrophe / The Accident on the Schreckhorn / Tragedy on the Jungfrau etc.

• Keywords: Alps · Avalanche · climbing · Hiking · Hillwalking · Library & Collection Building · Mountaineer’s Mountain · Mountaineering · Mountaineering – Collection · Mountaineering – Rare · Mountaineers · Mountains · Nature · Nature trail · Nature Writing · Snow · Tragedy · Travel and Adventure · Travel Writing
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120108AB