Myton Free Press | 1915-04-08 | Page 10 | Mountain Climbing

Mountain Climbing. Melchior Andregg, the famous Swiss guide, who has died, at the age of eighty-six, could remember the time when mountaineering as a popular pastime had not been Invented Such was evidently the case in 1838. the year when Murray's first Handbook to Switzerland was Issued. In the section of this work devoted to Mont Blanc the author contemptuously points out that "It is a somewhat remarkable re-markable fact that a large proportion of those who have made the ascent of this mountain have been persons of unsound mind " -c.