Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, J. M. W. Turner and Hans Heyerdahl. The Southern Alps before the huts and the guides - Mount Cook, the Tasman glacier, first ascents made with local shepherds and improvised gear. Ross was a New Zealand journalist and one of the first to climb them for their own sake. This edition includes a gallery of 59 plates of painting by Albert Bierstadt, Caspar David Friedrich and Frederic Edwin Church, among others, alongside 29 illustrations restored and coloured for this edition.