Everest. The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour.

Gillman, Peter (editor); Hillary, Sir Edmund (foreword)

ISBN 10: 0316904899 / ISBN 13: 9780316904896

Published by Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1993

About this Item

HEAVY. 208pp, index, sources, bibliography, list of ascents (1953-92), num ills (most col). Black cloth in jacket. Short tear at top of each flap fold, otherwise only light edge wear to jacket. The authors and photographers represented range from the epic attemps of the 1920s and 1930s such as those of Finch and Somervell; through Edmund Hillary, Tom Hornbein and Peter Boardman and on to contemporary figures such as Bonnington, Doug Scott and Stephen Venables. Aslo includes the disputed Chinese ascent of 1960 and the enigma of the yeti. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 051475

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everest. The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour.
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316904899
• ISBN 13: 9780316904896
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Asia
  • Mountaineering, Caving, Arctic and Antarctic
  • SPORTS & RECREATION::Mountaineering

About this title

Synopsis

Collects stories and photographs the mountain has inspired since the first attempt was made to reach its summit in 1921

About the Author

Peter Gillman is the author of ten books and is considered one of Britain's leading mountaineering writers. He is vastly experienced as a professional journalist working for the Sunday Times which enabled him to travel extensively throughout the worlds' five continents.