MANY SUMMITS
THE MOUNTAIN WORLD, 1956-57, English version, edited by Malcolm Barnes; Allen and Unwin, English price 25/-. MAKALU, by Jean Franco; Jonathan Cape, English price 25/-. NYONE thinking that one mountain Tange is the same as another will be surprised at the variety described in
the latest issue of this well-established annual, The book gives the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research great .prestige for its enterprise and is translated into several languages. The English version holds its enviably high level of production, and the profusion of fold-out photographs adds greatly to a comprehension of the specialised articles. These include the home territory of Central Europe, research into the nature of Greenland ice, a view of expeditionary mountaineering by an American concerned about standards of scientific work, and new climbs in Alaska, where peaks have great dimensions set in subarctic latitudes. Other contributions describe the volcanoes and pigmy tribes of the Belgian Congo, the successes by the British on Kanchenjunga, the French on Makalu and the Swiss on Lhotse and Everest, topped off by the interesting portent of a second ascent of Kamet by an allIndian party of mountaineers and soldiers. A study of a glacier village in the Karakoram Himalaya and accounts of climbs in that chain are welcome in a remarkable volume. Essentially the writing in highly compressed, and cannot swing into the intimacy of a diary or the perspective of a continuous aartrative, but the whole collection gives a good summary of the meeting of many summits and many men. The most significant contribution is by Bradford Washburn on Mount McKinley of Alaska, supported by fascinating aerial photographs and a colour map with contours. Makalu is the story of happy French team work on the fifth highest mountain of the world, told with agreeable ‘vivacity and bereft of the overtones that made Annapurna a best-seller. The adventures will be of interest to New Zealand mountaineers who followed the fortunes and reverses of the party led by Hillary in 1954 close to Makalu in the Barun valley. All eight members of the French assault parties reached the summit between May 15 and May 17, 1955. There were no serious accidents.
John
Pascoe
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 954, 22 November 1957, Page 14
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364MANY SUMMITS New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 954, 22 November 1957, Page 14
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