Kongur - China's Elusive Summit

by Bonington, Chris & Clarke, Charles

First Edition

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Book Description

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good+/Very Good+. 1982. First Edition. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 0340265140 Profusely illustrated with stunning and evocative photographs in colour and black-and-white, and maps. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh; Introduction by Michael Ward. 224pp including Bibliography and Index. In the 1980s the Chinese Mountaineering Association started to open some of the peaks in its great mountaineering treasury to foreigners. The British Mount Kongur expedition was the first to be allowed into China, its choice a 7,719 metre peak in Southern Xinjiang province. Its purpose was twofold - to combine a 4-man alphine-style ascent of one of the world's highest unclimbed peaks with the research of a 4-man scientific team, under the direction of the expedition leader, Michael Ward. Black cloth boards with very slight loss of colour to some edges and corners, otherwise contents nice and clean. Dust-jacket spine is very slightly faded, a couple of corners have minor rubbing repaired with archival tape; jacket is in loose protective cover. A Very Good+ copy in a clean and Very Good+ dust-jacket. .

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