| Climbing the Matterhorn by the Zmutt ridge | [Frontispiece] |
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| Rock-climbing | [14] |
| Crossing a steep snow slope | [14] |
| Scrambling in the range of the Tödi | [18] |
| Climbing the Capo al Dente | [24] |
| The southern summit of Capo Tafonato | [28] |
| The Cinque Fratri from below the Col de Foggiale | [32] |
| Paglia Orba from the Cinque Fratri | [36] |
| Morning mists | [44] |
| Climbing down a steep ridge | [48] |
| The short cut—roping down | [48] |
| The north face of the Jungfrau | [52] |
| The icefall of the Guggi Glacier | [56] |
| “We basked on the roof of the Guggi hut” | [62] |
| Cutting steps over the upper lip of a bergschrund | [76] |
| Evening storm | [80] |
| Morning calm | [80] |
| The Eismeer icefall | [86] |
| Sounding a snowbridge | [86] |
| Cornices on the Punta Margherita | [98] |
| A cornice on the Rôchefort ridge | [98] |
| The Tödi | [108] |
| The Tödi from the Bifertenlücke | [116] |
| The summit of the Tödi | [116] |
| The Bifertenstock from the Bündner Tödi | [128] |
| “... a faithful record of Forster’s blood-bespattered condition” | [136] |
| The east face of Monte Rosa | [142] |
| The Frisallücke | [148] |
| The Grenz Gipfel | [150] |
| The Val Sesia from Monte Rosa | [150] |
| A crevasse on the Zwillings Glacier | [154] |
| Castor | [154] |
| The Swiss ridge of the Matterhorn from the Matterhorn hut | [166] |
| The Swiss summit of the Matterhorn from the Italian summit | [170] |
| The summit of Mont Blanc in 1911 | [170] |
| Descending the Italian ridge | [174] |
| The Matterhorn from the Dent d’Hérens | [178] |
| The Matterhorn from the Stockje | [184] |
| The Matterhorn at sunset | [184] |
| “... that tremendous overhang called the ‘Nose of Zmutt’” | [186] |
| An ice avalanche | [196] |
| The north face of the Dent d’Hérens, showing route followed | [210] |
| Back at the Schönbühl hut after the climb | [210] |
| Mont Blanc from the Dôme hut | [218] |
| Descending Mont Maudit | [224] |
| The Peuteret ridge from the Col du Géant | [224] |
| Mont Blanc from the Val Veni | [228] |
| The Innominata from the Col du Fresnay | [236] |
| The Aiguilles Blanche and Noire de Peuteret | [244] |
| “A traverse of about thirty yards across the steep western flank of the Peuteret ridge....” | [244] |
| Chamonix Aiguilles and Mont Blanc | [250] |
| Descending the Grépon | [250] |
| A stiff chimney | [250] |
| A sérac | [254] |
| “Two ladders tied together and laid across the chasm” | [254] |
| The summit of the Grépon | [258] |
| Good, sound rock | [264] |
| The bergschrund below the Dru | [270] |
| Where next? | [272] |
| “La Pendule” | [274] |
| “... A rather steep ice slope—the Mur de la Côte” | [274] |
| On the summit of the little Dru | [278] |
| On the first day out from Phari Dzong | [290] |
| Shekar Dzong | [290] |
| Mount Everest and the Base Camp | [294] |
| Camp II. | [294] |
| “A suitable slope was soon found” | [302] |
| Amid the séracs of the East Rongbuk Glacier | [304] |
| Crossing a trough on the East Rongbuk Glacier | [304] |
| Mount Everest from Camp III. | [306] |
| The North Peak and the North Col Camp | [314] |
| The North Peak from an altitude of nearly 24,500 feet on Mount Everest | [316] |
| Mount Everest from the North Col, showing route | [330] |
| Monsoon clouds | [330] |
| On the return journey to the Base Camp | [332] |
| In a mountain hut | [336] |
| The Aiguille du Géant | [338] |
| The Sella Pass | [338] |