EVEREST DIARY: BASED ON THE PERSONAL DIARY OF LUTE JERSTAD, ONE OF THE FIRST FIVE AMERICANS TO CONQUER MOUNT EVEREST (SIGNED)

McCallum, John D.

Published by Follett Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, 1966

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Octavo, 8.5 in. x 5.75 in, pp. vi, [4], 213. Inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper by both Lute Jerstad and the author, John McCallum. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Light blue cloth boards with vertical olive stripe to front and black title to spine. Very light rubbing to board edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Light rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. Luther G. (Lute) Jerstad (1936 1998) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide who was a member of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition. He reached the summit of Mount Everest by the South Col route on May 22, 1963 with Barry Bishop. Three weeks earlier, on May 1, Jim Whittaker and Indian mountaineer Nawang Gombu, who was of Sherpa origin, had reached the summit, placing an American flag there. Jerstad described seeing the flag as he and Bishop approached the summit, " Just then we came over the last rise and there was that American flag -- and what a fantastic sight! That great big flag whipping in the breeze, and the ends were tattered." Later that day, they met up with fellow expedition members Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, who had just completed the first ascent of Everest by the West Ridge route, and the first traverse of the mountain. The four climbers made a frigid high-altitude bivouac at 28,000 feet without tents, sleeping bags or supplemental oxygen, and survived only because it was not a windy night. (from Wikipadia). Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EVEREST DIARY: BASED ON THE PERSONAL DIARY OF LUTE JERSTAD, ONE OF THE FIRST FIVE AMERICANS TO CONQUER MOUNT EVEREST (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Follett Publishing Company, Chicago, IL
• Publication Date: 1966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mountaineering