TRUE TALES OF

MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE

FOR NON-CLIMBERS YOUNG AND OLD

BY

MRS AUBREY LE BLOND

(MRS MAIN)

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
1903

(All rights reserved.)

TO

MR EDWARD WHYMPER

WHOSE SPIRITED WRITINGS AND GRAPHIC PENCIL FIRST AWAKENED
AN INTEREST IN MOUNTAINEERING AMONGST THOSE WHO
HAD NEVER CLIMBED, I DEDICATE THESE TRUE TALES
FROM THE HILLS, THE MATERIAL FOR SOME OF
THE MOST STRIKING OF WHICH I OWE
TO HIS GENEROSITY.