by Dawn L Hollis. These days, mountains are spaces for adventure, be that climbing, walking or skiing. Some regard our love of mountains as relatively new, claiming that before modern mountaineers planted flags upon the peaks, the average European was more likely to revile and avoid a mountainous landscape than to admire it. But Mountains Before Mountaineering tells a different narrative revealing giving voice to the early travellers who climbed peaks and passes with fear and delight, to the ‘real mountaineers’ who lived and died upon the mountain slopes, and to the scientists who used mountains to try to understand the origins of the world. This book invites you on a journey through the mountains, long before Everest was ‘discovered’ as the highest mountain in the world or before the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc. It is the story of how our love of the mountains has been a part of us from the very beginning.

Published by The History Press Ltd. Paperback. 129 x 199 x 25mm.