EVEREST - THE WEST RIDGE - (Abridged Edition, Sierra Club 74656)
Language: English
Published by Sierra Club/Ballantine Books, San Francisco, CA, 1968
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.100POCKETS
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Condition: Used - Very good
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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.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- EVEREST - THE WEST RIDGE - (Abridged Edition, Sierra Club 74656)
- Author
- Hornbein, Thomas F.; (David Bower, Editor); (William E.Siri, Introduction)
- Publisher
- Sierra Club/Ballantine Books, San Francisco, CA
- Publication year
- 1968
- Condition
- Collectible - Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- None as Issued
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Norman G. Dyhrenfurth (Photographer)
- Edition
- Abridged Version, First Edition
- Seller catalogs
- *photographed by our in-house photographer, Photography, Photographic Essays, Travel, Travelogue,Tour Guides
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