HURRICANES; THEIR NATURE AND HISTORY

PREPARATION AND USE OF WEATHER MAPS AT SEA

WEATHER AROUND THE WORLD

DROUGHT; ITS CAUSES AND EFFECTS

ALL ABOUT THE WEATHER

THE HURRICANE HUNTERS

SUMMITS OF ADVENTURE
The Story of Famous Mountains and Mountain Climbers

By JOHN SCOTT DOUGLAS
Author of “The Secret of the Undersea Bell,” “Fate of the Clipper Westwind,” Etc.
Illustrated with sixteen pages of stunning photographs

$3.00

Through the pages of this stirring book move ever upward the colorful figures who have conquered the world’s great mountain peaks; and in it are graphically described the most celebrated ascents of nearly two centuries, from the Alps to the Andes and from the Himalayas to the Rockies. No other sport has attracted such notable figures, for the great mountain climbers include justices, members of Parliament, princes and many renowned scientists. Nor has any other sport proved so useful. Mountain climbers have contributed to many sciences; also to aviation by their pioneer study of oxygen deficiency, and thrillingly to our literature. In addition, mountaineers were among the first to explore the remote Alpine valleys, the Caucasus, East Africa, the Alaska wilderness, the Andes and the Himalayas.

John Scott Douglas makes us share in the very feelings of the intrepid men who have had that unquenchable urge to conquer the seemingly unconquerable, no matter what the hazards or physical hardships. His story ranges from the early days of the first ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc, when the climbing equipment consisted of alpenstocks and meat cleavers and an ordinary bed blanket was the only protection against the icy blasts during the nights spent aloft on the mountainside, to the up-to-the-minute scientific equipment, including oxygen feeders and insulated suits, used in the recent ascent of Mount Everest.

The author is an enthusiastic mountaineer himself. He has enjoyed “scrambles” in the Alps, the Andes, the Central American Cordilleras, Alaska, the Catskills and the Colorado Rockies, the Olympics, Cascades and High Sierras. He writes on a favorite subject with zest and informative accuracy. His book provides “high” adventure in more than one way!

DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY