by Fergus Fleming · Granta Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862074538
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«Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps» is Fergus Fleming's history of mountaineering, in paperback from Granta Books (400 pages, in English).
It tells the story of the first British climbers who, at the end of the 18th century, set out to conquer the peaks of the Swiss Alps in ordinary boots and without protective clothing; their stubbornness gave rise to mountaineering. Old maps marked that area with the warning «here be dragons», alluding to the legendary creatures believed to inhabit those mountains.
The work was originally published in 2000; the edition described is from 2001.
It will appeal to fans of mountaineering history and true stories of exploration.
