23 OCTOBER 1959, page 25

Imaginative Climb

The Last Blue Mountain. By Ralph Barker. (Chatto and Windus, 21s.) THIS is the story of the disastrous Oxford Univer- sity expedition to climb Haramosh in the Kara- koram, which......

Wild Country

'ON the morning of the 10th of November, 1835, found myself off the coast of Galicia, whose lofty mountains, gilded by the rising sun, pre- sented a magnificent appearance. I......