# The making of a mountaineer

Author: Finch, George Ingle, 1888-1970

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69128

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+making+of+a+mountaineer+Finch&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Some twenty-two years ago, on a dewy spring morning in October, I urged my panting pony towards a hill-top in the Australian bush, the better to spy out the whereabouts of a mob of wallaby. The last few feet of the ascent being too much for the pony, I dismounted and, leaving him behind, scrambled up a short, rocky chimney to the summit. The wallaby were nowhere to be seen; but my wondering eyes were held spell-bound by such a vision as I had never even dreamed of. Miles and miles away the white-washed roofs of the township of Orange gleamed brightly in the clear morning sunshine; the main roads converging upon the town showed sharp and distinct from out their setting in the rolling bush....

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-making-of-a-mountaineer-69128/chapters/21/index.md)