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CLIMBING IN THE HIMALAYAS. By William 

 Martin Conway, M. A., F. R. G. S., Vice-President of the Al- 

 pine Club ; formerly Professor of Art in University College, 

 Liverpool. With 300 Illustrations by A. D. McCormick s and 

 a Map. Svo. Cloth, $10.00. 



This work contains a minute record of one of the most important and 

 thrilling geographical enterprises of the century— an expedition made in 

 1892, under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal 

 Society, the British Association, and the Government of India. It included 

 an exploration of the glaciers at the head of the Bagrot Valley and the great 

 peaks in the neighborhood of Rakipushi (25,500 feet 1 ; an expedition to 

 Hispar, at the foot of the longest glacier in the world outside the polar 

 regions ; the first definitely recorded passage of the Hispar Pass, the longest 

 known pass in the world ; and the ascent of Pioneer Peak (about 23,000 

 feet), the highest ascent yet authentically made. No better man could have 

 been chosen for this important expedition than Mr. Conway, who has spent 

 over twenty years in mountaineering work in the Alps. Already the author 

 of nine published books, he has recorded his discoveries in this volume in the 

 clear, incisive, and thrilling language of an expert. 



" It would be hard to say too much in praise of this superb work. As a record of 

 mountaineering it is almost, if not quite, unique. Among records of Himalayan ex- 

 ploration it certainly stands alone. . . . The farther Himalayas . . . have never been 

 so faithfully— in other words, so poetically — piesented as in the masterly delicate 

 sketches with which Mr. McCormick has adorned this book."— London Daily News. 



"This stately volume is a worthy record of a splendid journey. . . . The book is 

 not merely the narrative of the best organized and most successful mountaineering ex- 

 pedition as yet made; it is a most valuable and minute account, based on first-hand 

 evidence, of a most fascinating region of the heaven-soaring Himalayas." — Pall Mall 

 Gazette. 



" .Mr. Conway's volume is a splendid record of a daring and adventurous scientific 

 expedition. . . . What Mr. Whymper did for the Northern Andes, Mr. Conway has 

 done for the Karakorum Himalayas." — London Times. 



" It would be difficult to say which of the many classes of readers who will welcome 

 the work will find most enjoyment in its fascinating pages. Mr. Conway's pen and Mr. 

 McC'irmick's pencil have made their countrymen partners in their pleasure." — London 

 Standard. 



"... In addition to this, Mr. Conway is a man of letters, a student (and a teacher, 

 too) of art, a scholar in several languages; one, too, who knows the Latin names ot 

 plants, and the use of theodolite and plane table. From him, therefore, if from any 

 one, the world had a right to expect a book that should combine accurate observation 

 and intelligible reporting with an original and acute record of impressions; nor will 

 the world have any reason to be disappointed " — London Athenaum. 



" With its three hundred illustrations we have seldom seen a volume which speaks 

 to the eye and understanding so pleasantly and expressively on every page. . . . We 

 have an exhaustive panorama of the Himalayan scenery, of the manner in which the 

 rough marching was conducted, of ascents achieved under the most dangerous condi- 

 tions, and of the troubles and humors of the shifting camps where the coolies rested 

 from their labors." — London Saturday Review. 



" Perhaps no book of recent date gives a simpler or at the same time more effective 

 picture of the truly wonderful mountain regions lying behind the northern barrier of 

 India than Mr. Conway's striking volume." — London Telegraph. 



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