Published as Lonsdale Library vol. XVIII, this is an excellent overview of the subject, with contributions by some of the foremost mountaineers of the time: G. Winthrop Young, Claude Wilson, T. G. Longstaff, J. Monroe Thorington, and Walter Weston (on mountaineering in Japan and Korea). J. M. Wordie contributes a chapter on Arctic Mountaineering. The book was published in a trade edition bound in buckram with a dust-wrapper, and also in the present deluxe format.