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A man and his mountains / Norman Croucher.

Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster / Jon Krakauer.

Contribution à l'étude de la fatigue dans la course en montagne / Philippe Tissié et Alfred Blumenthal ; communication présentée a l'Acadaémie de Médecine (juin 1907) par M. le Professeur Bouchard.

On two attempts to ascend Chimborazo / by Alexander von Humboldt ; translated from the German, and communicated at the request of the author by Martin Barry.

Narrative of an ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc, August 18th, 1822 : with an appendix, upon the sensations experienced at great elevations / by Frederick Clissold.

Hours of exercise in the Alps / by John Tyndall.

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