About the book

Here is the third part of Veliki pionirji alpinizma by Bine Mlač. With it, his project, the aim to catalogue all the important pioneers of mountaineering up to WW2, is nearly completed. He is interested in their way of life and communicating, but researches the results of the good and the bad relationships, decisions, etc. as well. The author tries to depict the mountaineers from a completely human point of view. Among them, many felt some kind of freedom in the mountains understandable only to them, but still had to buy shoes in the valley or, even more banal, eat every day. To be able to do the things they were otherwise reluctant to do, they had to adjust, imitate others, get used to all of it ...