The Technique of Travel : Page 96

don, and inversely with the number in the party. Since Mountain Craft, the mountaineer's bible, first appeared, more responsibility has devolved upon members of the party, less on the leader; only in emergency is he expected in any physical way to help his party up a climb —a natural development of the trend away from guided climbing. But Young's precepts, one of which is that no mountaineering handbook can record "genuine mountain adventure or ... attitude of human mind towards the mountains and their symbolism," still hold. Certainly it should be pointed out that no one since Young has written better of ethics in mountaineering, and his code is recommended to any ski mountaineer who has ever had or ever expects any but pleasant human relations in mountains.