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A beautifully illustrated accounting of one of the landmark achievements of Swiss Alpine climbing during the Golden Age of Mountaineering. This volume chronicles the successful ascents of two peaks in the Bernese Oberland: the Doldenhorn and the Weisse Frau. A remarkable work of collaboration between two central figures of European mountaineering who would go on to become two of the founders of the Swiss Alpine Club.

Published simultaneously in German and English, this handsome variant was bound by Victorian fine binders Westleys & Co. for publication in the London and Edinborough markets. Contemporary with the binding practices of the early 1860s, when publishers issued the same edition in multiple formats for different markets and price points, the book appears to have been available in printed wrappers for the Continental market and in this more durable cloth binding for English readers.