Where the Clouds Can Go by Conrad Kain (1979)

The Autobiography of Conrad Kain. Edited & with additional chapters by J. Monroe Thorington. This is a 1979 third edition reprint published by the American Aklpine Club.

Conrad Kain was an Austrian mountain guide who put up many of the first ascents in Canada - most notably Mount Robson, via what is today known as the Kain Face. He also climbed in the European Alps and the Southern Alps of New Zealand.

This book was published after his death, being assembled by J. Monroe Thorington, who had traveled and climbed with Kain for six seasons in the Rockies. Thorington would later become president of the American Alpine Club, editor of the AAJ, and publish the first guidebook to the Purcell Range.

Hardcover book in excellent condition. With dustjacket, price-clipped with some sun-fading to green text on spine. Handsome blue cloth covering boards with turqoise gilt on spine and ice-axe design on front board, also gilt. Top edges of pages painted turquoise as well. Slight bumping to corners. Overall a handsome book representing one of climbing's true pioneers.

456 pages with index and 29 b&w photographs sprinkled throughout the text.