The Games Climbers Play

The Games Climbers Play remains a perennially popular mountaineering anthology
on both sides of the Atlantic – this is the fourth impression in Britain and
the third in America. It contains some of the finest essays written on
mountaineering and a plethora of more light-hearted and humorous items. The
late Sheridan Anderson’s cartoons and illustrations aptly reflect the
rabelaisian nature of the selection. Unlike earlier anthologies, that drew
their material by excerpting from books, the bulk of the articles in Games are
taken from contemporary magazine and journals and are (for the most part)
unabridged. They have a freshness and immediacy often lacking from more
painstakingly selected high-brow collections.