Excerpt from Appalachia, 1890-1892, Vol. 6: The Journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club IF the Publishing Committee need to offer excuses for presenting as a frontispiece for the sixth volume of appala chia the picture of a mountain of which perhaps few have even heard the name, without the usual accompaniment of a descriptive article from one who has visited it, surely the gran deur and wild beauty of this superb likeness of Ushba will plead powerfully in their behalf. It might, however, also be urged that it was time for our Club to recognize in this semi Ofiicial way a fact of some importance in the history of man's relation to the mountain; namely, that the centre of interest for climbers of the first order those who seek the presence of these giants for the purpose of surmounting almost insu perable difficulties, while at the same time solving some of the most fascinating problems of the unknown has been transferred from the Alps to a grander Switzerland, lying between the Black Sea and the Caspian, where Europe and Asia clash upon each other in the mighty crest of the main Caucasian chain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.