In reply to Richard J:
> "Old Winthrop Young summed it all up in his Valedictory Address to the Alpine Club, 'These armies of young boys and girls practising their wholesome open-air calisthenics, flooding the valleys in hale and hearty chase of pins-and-needles upon which to thread their athletic limbs up and down ...What was their love to ours? ...the pursuit of the distant white Domes ... etc ... etc ... etc.' "
Thanks. That is very familiar and could well be what I was remembering.
> From Tom Patey's One Man's Mountains. Don't know if he was genuinely quoting Winthrop Young, or being entirely satirical.
Hard to know........ I shall try find out.
Edit: Here is GWY's valedictory presidential address to the AC: https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1944_files/AJ54%201944%2...
It's not a direct quote but maybe in the right spirit.
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