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When the Alps Cast Their Spell
Trevor Braham
A history of Himalayan mountaineering's golden age — the 1950s and '60s, when the great peaks fell one by one. Braham was there for some of it, and his perspective is both participant and historian.
Mountains & Climbing
History
Alps & Europe
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Publisher
Neil Wilson Publishing
Published
2005
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