Author: HUNT, JOHN BARON (1910-). HILLARY, EDMUND SIR
Title: The ascent of Everest
Description: [London] : Hodder & Stoughton 1953. First Edition. Previous owner's inscription. Flat-SIGNED by Sir Hillary on the title page. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped). now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 299 pages; Physical description; xx. 299 p. [64] p. of plates : ill. ports. ; 23 cm. Includes index. Subjects; Mount Everest Expedition (1953). Everest. Mount (China and Nepal). When Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest on 29 May 1953. they caught the world's imagination in a way subsequently unmatched until humans walked on the Moon. by John Hunt.Weight in Kg appr.:

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