Reviews

Alpine Journal, Vol. 14, No. 318, 1969.

It is not possible to review the new look Alpine Journal: one can only make obeisance to it. It is so very large to begin with, that one has, albeit most profitably and pleasantly, to devote time to it. It is printed, produced and edited in magnificent style. It is full of splendid photographs of stupendous peaks and fearsome faces in all parts of the world. It is also full of top people distantly glimpsed on incredibly dirrettissima routes: the pick of the tops in all senses. It is impossible to summarize its contents and invidious to single out one or two articles from so much that is outstanding.

Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, Vol. XXIX. No. 161, 1970.

New routes on the Brack, Arrochar, by R. Richardson; a solo 8,000 ft. winter traverse of Creag Meaghaidh, by Tom Patey; Dun Da Ghaoithe, Mull, by Roger North; North face of the Matterhorn in summer by Ian Rowe; Aqua-sport, in distinguished company, in Clachaig Gully, by Allan Austin; excerpts from earlier S.M.C. Journals illustrating the first uses of motor cars in Scottish Mountaineering, c. 1903-08, illustrated by a photo of an elephant pulling a caravan through Glencoe in 1930; a note on the climbing possibilities of the peaks of the far north of Sutherland—Ben Loyal, Ben Hope, Foinaven —by R. J. Jolly; three reports on expeditions to Greenland—Upernivik Island, W. Greenland; Mount Mikkelsen, E. Greenland; South Stauning Alps and Antarctics Havn/Mestersvig; also an individual appraisal of the Mount Mikkelsen expedition by I. H. M. Smart; Creag an Dubh Loch by J. Grieve; Creag Meaghaidh, by N. Quinn.

Midland Association of Mountaineers, Vol. V, No. 1, 1969.

Miangul Sar in Swat-Kohistan, (The Innominate Karakoram Expedition 1968) by M. J. Mahon; Cader Idris by Michael Hall; the sea cliffs of Anglesey, by C. Perry; Frendo Spur, Aiguille du Midi, by Roger High; Cairngorm days, by David Smith; Boulder, Colorado, by Bob Burns; the Sylvan Traverse on the Milestone Buttress, by Dave Hughes; school expedition to Mount Kenya, by Hugh Thomas; climbs in the Lakes, by Dave Roberts; and in Skye, by Roger High.

Craven Pothole Club Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1969.

Grotta di Monte Cucco, Umbria—notes by John Whalley and David Judson; The problems of owning potholes, by J. A. Farrer, Lord of the Manor of Ingleborough; Gaping Gill Meet 1969; Islands from Raasay to Rousay, by Hugh Bottomley; Birks Fell Cave extension, ed., by Randal Coe; Water Gill Cave, Buckden (now permanently closed), by John Whalley; Week-end in County Fermanagh—Tullyhona Cave, by Peter Rose; Poll-na-Leprechauns, by David Judson; Summer Meet in Co. Clare, by Neil Platts; More of Scraflon Pot, by Steve Warren.

Fell and Rock Journal, Vol. XXI (No. 2) 1969.

An anonymous account of the shock of a friend’s death by avalanche in a hut; A week in the Cairngorms, by David Roberts; Nine weeks in Peru with the 1968 Plateriyayoc Expedition, by Owen Davis; The 30th December on a wet Munro, by Frank Alcock; Recollections of Cloggy, by Gordon Dyke; Rokkomborre and Dittitind in Arctic Sweden, by Don Greenop.

More away than at home in this number, apart from the usual very useful list of new climbs in the Lake District, and some fine photographs.

Rucksack Club Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 2, 1969.

J. T. H. Allen on the Manchester Karakorum Expedition 1968 to Malubiting, which unfortunately ended in a fatal accident; a 27 hour excursion in Tenerife on a Mount Teide under snow in March, by A. O. Davies; Kirkefjord in the Lofotens, by M. P. Halton (a Manchester University M. C. Expedition which also ended with a fatal accident); F. Heardman contrasting then and now in walking, mainly in the Peak area, and lamenting the closure of pubs, the disappearance of huts, and the passing of farming families; a non-climbing article on life in the valleys of Karakorum—shamans, goitre, blood feuds and all, by Ian Grant; and finally, without pressing any parallel, life in the Duddon Valley and the A\ year saga of the building of High Moss—a satisfactory conclusion to a good number.

Himalayan Journal, Vol. 28, 1967-68.

In 1967 twenty climbing parties of various nationalities were in Chitral, partly of course because other areas of the Himalayas were closed to climbers. But more people are looking to the Himalayas, and for them this journal is a most useful source of information, quite apart from the intrinsic interest of its articles. Most of this number is concerned with the Western half of the range—Chitral, the Kulu Valley, Tirich Mir, the Hindu Kush, Garhwal, with one article on West Nepal, two on Sikkim and one on Bhutan.

Cambridge Mountaineering, 1970.

Cloggy, by J. L. Cardy (Diglyph, Mostest, Slanting); Route Major, Brenva Face, Mont Blanc, by R. I. Ferguson; Hindu Raj 1969 (attempt on Thui II—Yarkhun Valley) by R. J. Collister; Lakeland and Welsh climbing, by J. R. Escott; Dent Blanche, Ferpecle arete, by D. G. Hardie; Nibbling at Bens, by M. Geddes; Kishtwar Himalaya, by Barbara Harriss; Limestone outcrop at Saussois, Burgundy, by P. E. Winter.

A.B.C.

The Libarian also gratefully acknowledges the following journals:

Alpine Journal, 1968.
Appalachia, 1968, 1969.
Appalachia Bulletins, 1968, 1969, 1970.
Bristol University Speleological Society Proceedings, 1967-68, 1968-69,
1969-70. Cairngorm Club Journal, 1968. Cambridge Mountaineering, 1969.
Climbers’ Club Journal, 1968.
Craven Pothole Club Journal, 1967, 1968.
Deutscher Alpenverein. Mitteilungen. Jugend am Berg., 1968, 1969.
Equipe Speleo de Bruxelles. Bulletin d’Information, 1967, 1969.
Fell and Rock Climbing Club Journal, 1968.
Himalayan Journal, 1966.
Japanese Alpine Club Journal, 1967, 1968.
Leeds University Speleological Association. Review, 1968, 1969, 1970.
Midland Association of Mountaineers Journal, 1968.
Mountain Club of South Africa Journal, 1967, 1968.
National Speleological Society (U.S.A.) Bulletin, 1968, 1969.
National Speleological Society (U.S.A.) News, 1968, 1969, 1970.
Pinnacle Club Journal, 1967-68.
Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, 1969.
South Wales Caving Club Newsletter, 1969, 1970.
Speleo Club de Paris. Grottes Gouffres, 1968.
Speleo Club de la Seine. L’Aven, 1967, 1968.
Spelunca, 1968, 1969, 1970.
Swiss Alpine Club. Bulletins, 1968, 1969, 1970.
Swiss Alpine Club. Reviews, 1968, 1969.
Wayfarers’ Journal, 1968.