Awesome read, thanks for that. Just getting into mountaineering this really makes me very sad. Like the father and son in the article, wanting to be in a book of legens only to find it missing is just madness.
I disagree with climbers taking them down and giving them to the Bancroft, I understand their logic, but disagree with taking the matter into their own hands.
It's absolutely sickening climbers would pilfer such things for personal collection or gain.