The making of a mountaineer

THE MAKING OF A MOUNTAINEER
Climbing the Matterhorn by the Zmutt ridge.
“We had to cut steps across a wide ice slope” ( page 187 ).
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GEORGE INGLE FINCH
WITH SEVENTY-EIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS, ONE DRAWING AND TWO DIAGRAMS
ARROWSMITH :: LONDON :: W.C.1
First published in May, 1924
Printed in Great Britain by J. W. ARROWSMITH LTD. 11 Quay St. & 12 Small St., Bristol
To MY WIFE
Man’s heritage is great. There are the mountains; he may climb them. Mountaineering is a game second only to the greatest and best of all man’s games—life.
The War all but dried up the steady stream of youthful and enthusiastic devotees who kept alive and fresh the pursuit of mountain-craft. But fresh blood is as essential to the healthy life of mountaineering as it is to any other game, craft or pursuit, and, fortunately, there are cheerful signs that the after-effects of the War are fast becoming spent. Our youth is beginning to find the dancing floor, the tennis court and the playing fields of Great Britain too narrow, too lacking in scope, perhaps also a little bit too soft; and the craving grows for wider fields and a sterner, freer pastime.