Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1912 — Advice to Alpine Climbers. [ARTICLE]

Advice to Alpine Climbers.

In the earlier part of the nineteenth century many even of those who had been up Alpine peaks themselves denounced the Bport. Regarding the ascent of Mount Blanc, Murray's Handbook in the year 1838 stated that “all who have succeeded have advised no one to attempt it,” and nearly 20 years later noted! the “remarkable Tact that a large proportion of those who have made this ascent have been persons of unsound mind."