Excerpt: 'This book is not a Manual of Climbing Technique. It is a companion for a Mountain Week-End, and for all Mountaineers, by which honourable term is meant those who tramp, camp or sojourn among mountains for the love of them, as well as those who climb them with ropes. It is a Compendium, this book, of Things About Mountains: things written, spoken, or sung; things worth knowing and things worth looking for; things discovered, speculated and calculated; things humorous and things of grave import. There are pages of the idler by mountain lakes, the arguer in mountain huts, the seeker after mountain lore.' This book is in good condition but the cover and spine are discoloured.