The Story of Alpine Climbing

Alpine climbing is distinctly a modern enterprise. As a sport it is usually dated from the ascent of the Wetterhorn by Mr. Justice Wills, then Mr Alfred Wills of the junior bar, in 1854; and the English Alpine Club - which was the first of all the Alpine Clubs - was not formed until three years later. Explorers and men of science, however, had had adventures on the mountains before the sportsmen repaired to them for athletic exercise, so that the threads of the story of the pastime have to ...