8vo. With 9 double-page color-printed maps, 32 plates, numerous in-text illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth gilt. Provenance: R. P. Dawsey?, Church Stretton (signature).FIRST EDITION of the author's only book. Slingsby, one of the top climbers of his generation, climbed in Britain, the Alps, and Norway. He pioneered numerous routes on rock and glacier and made over fifty first ascents between Jotunheim and North Cape from 1872 to 1920, some solo, some with his wife and almost all guideless in what was then virtually unknown territory. Neate S83; Perret 4072.