Excerpt from The Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal What a luxury it is to the climber to have had his chosen centre explored, so that every gully is known by number, letter, or name, and described so minutely that, as has been sarcastically remarked, he knows with which foot to start from the hotel. In his rucksack is a list of climbs in their order of difficulty and danger if he be ambitious, he needs waste no time on those enjoyable ascents which are the scorn of the scorner; by careful selection he may also avoid the risk of defeat. Luxuries pall with use, however, and for a change the uncertainties attendant on climbing unfrequented crags may afl'ord keener enjoyment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.