Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book, collects true stories of real-life adventurers climbing the world's most famous and most challenging mountains, without modern equipment to support them. Read here about the fate of these adventurers, their successes and failures, challenges and..

By : John Timbs (1801 - 1875)

01 - Mont Blanc 02 - Mont Blanc 03 - The Finsteraarhorn 04 - The Peak of Morteratsch 05 - The Jungfrau 06 - The Galenstock 07 - The Matterhorn 08 - The Pic du Midi of the Pyrenees 09 - The Breche de Roland 10 - Mont Perdu 11 - North Cape 12 - The Brocken 13 - Parnassus 14 - Mount Athos 15 - Mount Elburz in the Caucasus 16 - The Taurus Mountains of Cilicia 17 - Mount Lebanon 18 - Mount Ararat 19 - Mount Sinai 20 - Gungootree, the Sacred Source of the Ganges 21 - Adam's Peak, Ceylon 22 - Ascent of the Gunung-Talang, Sumatra 23 - Peter Botte, Mauritius 24 - The Peak of Teneriffe 25 - Discovery of an Ancient Volcano 26 - The Silla of Caracas 27 - Chimborazo 28 - Discovery of Peruvian Bark 29 - Animal Life in Mountain Regions