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      Language: English

      Published by Sierra Club/Ballantine Books, San Francisco, CA, 1968

      • Softcover
      • First Edition

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      Soft cover. Condition: Collectible - Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. Abridged Version, First Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. VINTAGE 1968, Edition. Illustrated soft cover/VG; strong & sound w/light rubs & trace soiling to edges, faint creasing to lower front corner & small soil spot to front. Map to rear. Record of 1st American ascent of Mt. Everest, 1963. 160 pgs, color photos, in 16 chapters. Led by Swiss-born explorer, film-maker & mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth. Scientific research expedition sponsored by Nat'l Geographic. The team was academically brilliant . 5 members w/doctorates & 8 holding masters degrees. May 22nd, 1963. Luther G. Jerstad & Barry Bishop reached the summit of the South East Ridge summit, and Will Usoeld & Tom Hornbein the summit of the West Ridge. This is the account of scaling of the latter. Text by physician Hornbein; photos by Dyhrenfurth. The team was honored at the White House by President Kennedy, and awarded the Nat'l Georgraphic Society's Hubbard Metal. Norman G. Dyhrenfurth (Photographer) (illustrator).…