EVEREST: THE TESTING PLACE.

WEST, John B.

ISBN 10: 0070695024 / ISBN 13: 9780070695023

Published by Mcgraw Hill,, New York,, 1985

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xii, 187. Original publishers black cloth over blue boards, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0070695024 Fine in fine dust jacket. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.

Seller Inventory # C91318

Bibliographic Details

• Title: EVEREST: THE TESTING PLACE.
• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill,, New York,
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070695024
• ISBN 13: 9780070695023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • mountaineering

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Synopsis

High adventure, medical science, and mountaineering become one in this splendid book, a spirited account of a recent event that was unique in American medicine and in Himalayan expeditions. For the first time, an attempt was made to climb Mount Everest for the express purpose of conducting scientific and medical research. This book recounts the story of that climb, the American Medical Research Expedition. John West captures fully the exhilaration, endurance, and dangers of the climb while conveying the nature and importance of the medical experiments.