Everest: The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavor - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Peter Gillman, Sir Edmund Hillary

This Fine First Edition/First Printing is SIGNED by "E. P. Hillary" directly on the title page, slight bumping of lower corners, Near Fine dustjacket exhibits some rubbing and staining with a few minor tears at top and at lower front corner, otherwise bright and Fine;

When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest, it was the culmination of 30 years of attempted climbs and began the 40 years of 485 ascents by 13 different routes. This book chronicles those climbs with some of the finest writing and photography in the canon of mountaineering. (from the cover).

Price: $450.00

Book #14202
Everest: The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavor - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing; Signed by One Author
Size: 8vo
Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.
ISBN: 0316904899

Author Bio

Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (July 20, 1919 - Jan., 11 2008), New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On May 29, 1953, he and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.

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