The Ascent of Everest (signed) with contemporary documents and with High Adventure

HUNT, Sir JOHN: HILLARY, Sir Edmund

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1953

About this Item

1st edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author, leader of the successful British expedition to Mount Everest. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, extremely clean and tidy pages, 8 colour plates and 48 full-page b/w photographs and maps, very near fine pictorial dustjacket, not price-clipped. Chapter 16, 'The Summit', is by Sir Edmund Hillary. Together with a copy of the official booklet/programme produced for the subsequent Lecture Tour by members of the team which made the successful first ascent of Everest, original pictorial wraps with photos throughout; plus a copy of The Times First Ascent of Mount Everest Supplement July 1953, with photos throughout, and a Tuesday 2 June 1953 copy of The Daily Mail with Everest ascent headline and a photograph of Edmund Hillary to front page; plus a 2003 50th anniversary The Times/Royal Geographical Society special supplement; and John Hunt's Our Everest Adventure, issued by Brockhampton Press, 1954, in dustjacket with b/w photographs throughout, many of which had not previously been published. A nice assortment of Everest items, headed by Sir John Hunt's signed copy, and with a first-issue UK copy of Sir Edmund Hillary's High Adventure, 1955, the text clean, the dj a little nicked and spotted at extremities.

Seller Inventory # PSHB8501

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ascent of Everest (signed) with contemporary documents and with High Adventure
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mountaineering