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In the riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the amazing story of a few of history's most significant explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks of the Alps. Fleming recounts the incredible exploits of the men whose centuries-old fear of the mountain range flipped quickly to interest, then to obsession, as they explored Europe's frozen wilderness. In the overdue 18th century, French and Swiss researchers became considering the Alps as a study destination, however in the 1850s the emphasis improved: The icy mountains now offered an all-out competition for British climbers who wanted to conquer ever before higher and even more impossible levels, and explorers fought one another on the peaks and in the press, engaging a vast open public smitten with their bravery, delighted by their personal animosities, and horrified by the disasters that befell them.

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