The Games Climbers Play

A Selection of 100 Mountaineering Articles

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.