The perpetual hills, a personal Anthology by Hugh Merrick
Unlike most books about mountains The perpetual hills is unique. It is at once a fascinating anthology and a moving autobiography of a man who, for over half a century, has yielded willingly to a passion for mountains. Hugh Merrick is a distinguished mountaineering writer and photographer. In this book his own writing and his choice from over a hundred other authors will not only provide entertainment and inspiration for the seasoned climber but will delight and thrill those who have never crossed the snow-line or climbed a rock-face with rope and piton.
The perpetual hills will fire the imagination of the young and recall past glories to their elders — for rarely has there been so rich a feast of memories or so evocative a selection of prose and verse.
Here, for all who find the spell of the perpetual hills irresistible, are unforgettable descriptions of mountain splendours; thoughts of great writers inspired by mountains; and eye-witness accounts of historic climbs like those on Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga (the world's three highest peaks), Nanga Parbat, Annapurna, the Matterhorn and the North Face of the Eiger. From these vivid pages the reader will share something of the nature of the urge which drives man to undergo the hardships and hazards of mountain-climbing; of the infinite variety of alpine beauty; and of the transcendent quality of alpine experience something of Goethe's "peace on the mountains' crest"
Thirty-two pages of magnificent photographs, most of them by the author, handsomely complement the text.
Hugh Merrick, apart from a many sided and successful career, has proved himself as a sportsman, photographer and writer. An Oxford Blue, Sussex sprints champion and member of an Achilles team which won an A.A.A. Relay Championship, he has been responsible for the preparation of four successive books on modern athletics by members of the Achilles Club. He has written five alpine novels, among them Savoy Episode, translated some half-dozen notable books on mountaineering, published a selection of his own alpine photographs, and written a standard reference book — The Great Motor Highways of the Alps. A member of the Alpine and other mountaineering Clubs, Hugh Merrick has an intimate first-hand knowledge of the Swiss, French, Austrian and Italian Alps as well as of our own British hills, having walked, climbed and motored among them all his life. While serving during the First World War he visited the Himalayas, in which he has maintained a close interest ever since, becoming an authoritative commentator on the "golden decade" of Himalayan climbing between 1950 and 1960.
Details
- Hardcover with dust-jacket (good)
- Condition: Good
- Publisher: Newnes : London
