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CLIMBERS will find this little pocket-book an invaluable guide to instructive scrambles in Wales and Ireland; but the large number of fatal accidents recorded in its pages is hardly calculated to give other readers the mountaineering fever. On the first two pages of the book, three fatal falls and one severe accident are noted, and the tale of deaths is sustained throughout the book. To those who are filled with the desire to climb, this spice of danger only gives zest to the recreation; and the fact that several lives have been lost in attempts to scale a certain rock, is a sufficient reason for many Englishmen to tackle that rock and endeavour to scale it. In the book under notice, all the essential information about climbs in Wales and Ireland is given, with thirty-one illustrations (by Mr. Ellis Carr) and nine plans. By means of it, the would-be climber will be able to select his hills and peaks without difficulty, and with its assistance he may do in these islands hill-climbing which will form no mean part of a real mountaineering education. The book is primarily intended for those who climb for climbing's sake, hence little attention is paid to the geological interest of the rocks and hills described.
Climbing in the British Isles. II. Wales and Ireland. Wales.
By W. P. Haskett Smith. Ireland. By H. C. Hart. Pp. 197. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895.)
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Climbing in the British Isles II. Wales and Ireland Wales. Nature 52, 617 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052617c0
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