ARLAUD (Jean) - Lot 14

ARLAUD (Jean) Notebooks 1913-1938. Toulouse, imp. Camilli et Fournier, 1965-66. 2 volumes in-8 square: 550pp. 1f. / 482pp. 1f. photographic illustrations, drawings and maps in text. Edition of 503 copies (one of 450 on Chamonix). Paperback, glacier blue illustrated covers. A fine copy. J. PRUNET, the moral heir of Jean ARLAUD and the "Groupe des Jeunes", is the author of this veritable sum of modern Pyreneanism. ARLAUD's character excited some and annoyed others. Such are the leaders of men. Whatever the case, he is a key figure in the history of Pyrenean mountaineering, and his aura would probably have grown if life had allowed him the time to carry out his current project: leading "his" expedition to the Himalayas (Labarère 57).