Chapter 21 THE WHOLE DUTY OF THE CLIMBER-ALPINE DISTRESS SIGNALS

I cannot bring this book to a more fitting end than by quoting the closing words of a famous article in The Alpine Journal by Mr C. E. Mathews entitled "The Alpine Obituary." It was written twenty years ago, but every season it becomes if possible more true. May all who go amongst the mountains lay it to heart!

"Mountaineering is extremely dange