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RECENT books on mountaineering: A Century of Mountaineering 1857-1957, by

Arnold Lunn (Allen and Unwin, 30,t); The First Ascent of Mont Blanc, by T. Graham Brown and Sir Gavin de Beer (O.U.P., 700; Mountaineering in Britain, a History, by Ronald W. Clark and Edward C. Pyatt (Phenix House, 45s.).