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Eight-thousanders

K2—THE SAVAGE MOUNTAIN. By Charles Houston and Robert Bates. (Collins, 25s.) I owN I had tended to regard the 1953 American expedition to K2, second highest mountain in the......

Nor So Very Long Ago The Gulf Between Those Who

had rockeries and those who possessed an Alpine garden was almost as clear- cut as the division between coup / and commonalty. But now, When the private gardener is becoming......