Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 4to; Signed by Biographee
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers, 2003, London
ISBN: 0007147481

[Book #14201]

A beautiful First UK Edition/First Printing in about Fine condition, light bump to bottom corner in Fine dust-wrapper, SIGNED by climbers Ed Hillary, Chris Bonington, and Kurt Diemberger directly on the title page;

George Band, youngest member of the 1953 Everest Expedition, has written the story of the first successful climb of Everest and has explained how this ascent was actually the culmination of many other attempts preceding 1953. This history of the people and the planning involved is the official publication celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Everest's ascent and contains unpublished photos that reveal the beauty and wonder of the treacherous landscape