*His caution was not misplaced. In an age when Alpine authors vied to give their works as unassuming a title as possible - ‘Wanderings …’, ‘Excursions …’, ‘Hours of Exercise …’, ‘A Summer Holiday …’, etc. - a word like ‘Scrambles’ was a prize. Whymper later sought and obtained an injunction against a fellow climber who tried to use it for his own book.