Summits and Secrets

Diemberger, Kurt

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ISBN 10: 0049100475 ISBN 13: 9780049100473

Published by George Allen & Unwin (1971), London, 1971

Language: English

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Anonymous inscription on front endpaper (NB: inscription contains obscenity, may offend. "For the Boys of / 'NZ Patagonian Expedition' / To Wa*k Over Whilst / In Pit Waiting For Weather".) Some staining to margins of boards and dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First English edition. 344 pages + plates. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine.Page dimensions: 233 x 150mm. Mountaineering. Tex in English, translated by Hugh Merrick. "If his story of Hermann Buhl's death on Broad Peak at 26,000 feet is vivid and harrowing in the extreme, and his detailed account of the Eiger north face infinitely absorbing, his opening tale of a crystal hunt and closing meditations on being faced with the cave-paintings of Altamira, reveal a character original, sensitive and imaginative. The photographs, all by Kurt Diemberger himself, are a worthy accompaniment to a so readable and so moving story." - from dust-jacket blurb. [Reference: Neate D26 - "Autobiographical collection of pieces about his early life, great Alpine climbs and Himalayan expeditions, by a leading Austrian mountaineer, who made the first ascent of Broad Peak in the Karakoram."].

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Title: Summits and Secrets
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin (1971), London
Publication Date: 1971
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0049100475
ISBN 13: 9780049100473
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-

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English, German (translation)

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