- List of Illustrations*
- 1. Beginnings
- 2. Discovery of the Glacières
- 3. Ascent and Enfranchisement
- 4. Who Was First?
- 5. Temple of Nature
- 6. Social Climbers
- 7. Age of Conquest
- 8. History Detectives
- 9. Almost Together
- 10. Bodies of Ice
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Illustrations:
- Figures
- 1. Ascent of the Rothorn, 1864
- 2. Scheuchzer’s Swiss dragon, 1723
- 3. Petrarch’s “most delightful transalpine retreat,” ca. 1350
- 4. Mont Inaccessible, 1492/1701
- 5. Les Glacières in G.T. Borgonio, Carta Generale de Stati di Sua Altezza Reale, 1680
- 6. Pierre Martel’s map and sketch of Mont Blanc, 1744
- 7. Circular view of the mountains from the summit of the Buet, 1779
- 8. Louis Bacler d’Albe, Jacque Balmat dit le Mont-Blanc, 1788
- 9. Louis Bacler d’Albe, Michel Gabriel Paccard, docteur en médecine à Chamouni en Savoie, 1788
- 10. Marquardt Wocher, Voyage de Mr de Saussure à la cime du Mont Blanc au mois d’août 1787—La descente—2ème planche, 1er état, 1790
- 11. Marc-Théodore Bourrit, Temple à la Nature at Montanvert, 1795
- 12. Temple à la Philosophie at the Festival of Reason, Paris, 1793
- 13. Samuel Birmann, À la Flégère, ca. 1826
- 14. Henri Deville, Henriette d’Angeville dans sa tenue du Mont-Blanc, ca. 1838
- 15. Mr. Albert Smith’s Ascent of Mont Blanc in Miniature, ca. 1855
- 16. Edward Whymper, The Club-Room of Zermatt in 1864
- 17. Emil Rittmeyer, The Alpine Summit, 1861
- 18. Monument to Saussure and Balmat, 1887
- 19. Summit Observatory and the Chasseurs Alpins, Le Petit Journal, 1901
- 20. Alpine bookplate, ca. 1920s
- 21. Poster for Der ewige Traum, 1934
- 22. Tenzing Norgay with the flags of India, Nepal, and Britain, 1953
- 23. Paccard Statue in Chamonix, 2011
- 24. The Iceman/Der Mann aus dem Eis/L’Uomo venuto dal ghiaccio, 1991
- Maps
- 1. The Alps
- 2. Mont Blanc and the Western Alps
- Figures
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