Catalogue description Margery Broadbent Climbs

Series Title: Original Diaries

Accounts of expeditions, the first with her husband John G. Broadbent and the guide Alfred Biner ascending the Rumpfischhorn, and traversing the Furggrat (aborted). The following year she and her husband successfully made the Furggrat traverse with Alfred Biner, and then an ascent of the Riffelhorn with Alfred's brother, Joseph Biner. At the back of the book is an account of her ascent of the Matterhorn with "Alex", another guide. With five loose photographs, including snapshots from the Matterhorn centenary commemoration, 1965.

Places: Alps

Subject: Matterhorn centenary