Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Karl Robert von Planitz, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and J. M. W. Turner. Avalanches on the Haut-de-Cry and the Matterhorn, a slide down a wall of ice, a party lost in the glacier for forty years, the conquest of the Matterhorn and the tragedies that followed it: the great stories of Alpine climbing, many told in the words of the men who lived them, among them Leslie Stephen, Edward Whymper and Clinton Dent. Mrs Aubrey Le Blond adds her own chapters on glaciers, avalanches and the guides, ends with the climber's duties and the Alpine distress signal, and illustrated the book with her own photographs. She wrote it for people who have never climbed, and she does not leave out the accidents. Its 60 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.