Excerpt from Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight SunIn those days such expeditions were numerous, and a few months later we carried out a series of ascents in the Chamonix district which proved the forerunners of many more in other ranges of the Alps during the winters that followed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.