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r^LIMBING IN THE HIMALAYAS. By William 



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



Alpine Club; formerly Professor of Art in University College, 



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



a Map. 8vo. Cloth, $10.00. 



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

 ing 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 neighbor- 

 hood of Rakipushi (25,500 feet); an expedition to Hispar, at the foot of the 

 longest glacier in the world outside the polar regions ; the first definitely re- 

 corded 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 mountain- 

 eering 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 

 exploration it certainly stands alone. . . . The farther Himalayas . . . have never 

 been so faithfully— in other words, so poetically — presented 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 

 expedition 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."— j°a//jj/a// 

 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."— io«rfo« Times. 



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

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

 and Mr. McCormick'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 of plants, and the use of theodolite and plane table. From him, therefore, it 

 from any one, the worid had a right to expect a book that should combme accurate 

 observation and intelligible reporting with an original and acute record of impressions ; 

 nor will the world have any reason to be disappointed."— irarfra 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. 



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