High Adventure by Sir Edmund Hillary. FIRST EDITION, first printing. SIGNED E P HILLARY

High Adventure by Sir Edmund Hillary.

SIGNED BY AUTHOR: E P HILLARY on half-title page.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1955, FIRST EDITION, first printing.

Very good hardback with jacket. Blue cloth boards have some minor marks, and slight compression to spine ends. Binding tight, no owner inscriptions, first and last few pages have some foxing, pages very good with foxing to edges.    Jacket is not price clipped (16s net). It is rubbed at folds with a tiny hole. Some chipping at edges; some foxing, repair to top edge, small closed tear to bottom edge, spine is dulled down.

225 pages with b&w photos.

Everest forbidding, exhilarating, unconquerable. All courageous attempts by man to reach its summit by heading up the northern side from Tibet had failed. The southern approach through Nepal had never before been climbed, due to its impossibly steep ice-covered slopes and the country's policies. But in 1951 Edmund Hillary joined an expedition to find a new route up Everest from the south, which led to a new chapter in mountaineering history. The climbers' determination, endurance and battle against the elements culminated with their famous climb in 1953 as they finally reached the summit of this formidable mountain. This is Hillary's own account of the treacherous and breathtaking journeys.

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