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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2 BEFORE 1854: IN SEARCH OF THE SUBLIME

From gloom to glory

Aesthetes and heroes

CHAPTER 3 1854–65: A CONSCIOUS DIVINITY

CHAPTER 4 1865–1914: GENTLEMEN AND GYMNASTS

The Alps

The Lake District

North Wales

Scotland

Outcrops

The Greater Ranges

CHAPTER 5 1914–39: ORGANISED COWARDICE

The Lake District

North Wales

Scotland

Outcrops

The Alps

The Greater Ranges

CHAPTER 6 1939–70: HARD MEN IN AN AFFLUENT SOCIETY

North Wales

The Lake District

Scotland

Outcrops

The Alps

The Greater Ranges

CHAPTER 7 AFTER 1970: REINVENTING THE IMPOSSIBLE

Rock climbing

Mountaineering

CHAPTER 8 BECAUSE IT’S THERE?

NOTES

APPENDIX I A NOTE ON GRADES

APPENDIX II GLOSSARY OF CLIMBING TERMS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY