Extreme Buildering, Moscow, Russia

In 1921, a group of undergraduates from St John's College, Cambridge, published a buildering guide to that college .
In 1930, John Hurst wrote the second edition of Geoffrey Winthrop Young's buildering guide to Trinity .
In 1937, a comprehensive and light-hearted account of Cambridge night climbing (undergraduate buildering) appeared in popular print , written by Noël Howard Symington, under the pseudonym "Whipplesnaith".
In 1947, John Ciampa scaled the exterior of the Astor Hotel in New York City.