236pp, owner's signature, Fine in Fine dw, signed by Stephen Venables. The least accessible and most dramatic face on Everest. Venables solo summit success from the South Col was regarded as perhaps the most considerable climbing feat of the year. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

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Title: Everest Kangshung Face
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0340423668
ISBN 13: 9780340423660
Binding: hardcover
Edition: 1989 First Edition.
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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This is the story of the author's remarkable feat of climbing to the summit of Mount Everest alone, unaided by oxygen and by a new route, in 1988. His previous book "Painted Mountains" won the Boardman Tasker Award for Climbing Literature.

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Stephen Venables is one of the best-known mountaineers of his generation and the author of EVEREST - ALONE AT THE SUMMIT. Joanna Wright is Curator of Photography at the Royal Geographical Society Picture Library in London. John Keay is the author of THE GREAT ARC: THE DRAMATIC TALE OF HOW INDIA WAS NAMED. Ed Douglas is the editor of the ALPINE JOURNAL. Tashi Tenzing is grandson of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and with his wife, Judy, is the author of TENZING NORGAY AND THE SHERPAS OF EVEREST.

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