Evidence: | 'My early reading had been confined to the work of the pioneers, and in consequence it never occurred to me that big mountains coud be climbed without guides.[...] I had acquired a copy of Abraham's "Swiss Mountain Climbs" which set out in depressing detail the official tariffs of the great peaks, the study of which acted as a constant check on my ambitions.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Eric Shipton |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1 Aug 1907 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | adolescent |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | English (born in Ceylon) |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | George D. Abraham |
Title: | Swiss Mountain Climbs |
Genre: | Geography / Travel, Sport / Leisure |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1911 Mills and Boon [sic] |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 18397 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Eric Shipton | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Upon That Mountain: in The Six Mountain Travel Books | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1999 (1943) | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 326 | |
Additional comments: | The source text is Shipton's autobiographical memoir of various climbing and formative experiences. |
Citation: | Eric Shipton, Upon That Mountain: in The Six Mountain Travel Books (London, 1999 (1943)), p. 326, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18397, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
The reference in the reading experience to 'the work of the pioneers' almost certainly implies, among other works, the Edward Whymper's great classic "Scrambles amongst the Alps"(1871). See record 18391 |
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