MOUNTAIN LOG NEWS 23 NEW ISSUE OF HISTORICAL JOURNAL A new issue of the Journal of the Irish Mountaineering and Exploration Historical Society has been published by Mountaineering Ireland. Edited by Kevin Higgins, Volume 5 of the journal contains the following feature articles: ● Booleying, by Kevin Myers ● The Comeragh Mountains: Their Lakes and Legends (Parts I and II), which was written by ‘MEM’ in 1849 ● From Famine Ship to Sierra Summit: The Story of Dick Cotter, by Kevin Higgins ● Au Naturel, an intriguing account by Susan Gavan Duffy of her experience of living in Salvan in the Swiss Alps in the 1890s ● The Story and Related Incidents by My Caves of the Vignemale, by Count Henry Russell (translated from French by Áine Ni Chaoimh) ● An Irish Witness to the Disappearance of Mallory and Irvine, by Jim Murphy ● The Poisoned Glen 1950–1970, by Peter Cooper ● The First Ascent of Spearhead, Luggala, by John Duignan. Copies of the journal (price €7; €10 including postage), may be purchased from Mountaineering Ireland.
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