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London: John Murray, 1871. 8vo. original green cloth gilt, bevelled edges (rebacked retaining original backstrip and endpapers, edges a little rubbed with occ. wear to extremities, prev. owner's name to half-title, small bookseller's label to front pastedown, a very few faint spots to outer leaves, else clean & bright); pp. xx (last blank), 432, with 21 full page illustrations, 90 figures + 5 folding maps. A very good copy of the genuine first edition, not a reprint of later the same year, scarce thus. [Neate W65: The most famous of all mountaineering books. Whymper was a young wood engraver who became obsessed with the first ascent of the Matterhorn. The price he had to pay for achieving this was the loss of his companions in the most celebrated mountain disaster of all time. His one other great expedition was in 1880 to the Andes of Ecuador. Although his writings and lecturing brought him success, his life may be said to have been ruined by the tragedy which followed his moment of triumph].. First Edition.