The ascent of Everest
1953, First Edition. London : Hodder & Stoughton. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked blue cloth boards; edges somewhat foxed. Remains well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #477419
Physical description; xx, 299 pages, 48 pages of plates : frontispiece, illustrations (some colour), maps ; 23 cm. Contents; Part I: Background – Perspective – The problem – Part II: Planning – Preparations: one – Preparations: two – Part III: Approach – To Nepal – To Khumbu – Rehearsals – Icefall – Part IV: Build-up – Stock-piling – Lhotse Face: one – The plan – Lhotse Face: two – Part V: Assault – South Col: one – South Col: two – South Peak – The summit / Edmund Hillary – Part VI: Aftermath – Return – Reflections – Appendices. Diary of the expedition, September 1952-June 1953 / compiled by Wilfrid Noyce – Preparations for the Everest Expedition 1953: organization – Basis for planning – Equipment / Charles Wylie – Oxygen / Tom Bourdillon – Diet / Griffith Pugh and George Band – Physiology and medicine / Griffith Pugh and Michael Ward – Everest, 1953: Assault load tables – Acknowledgments of assistance in launching the expedition. Subjects; Mount Everest Expedition (1953). Mountaineering – Everest, Mount (China and Nepal).
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