ATTACK ON EVEREST
by Ruttledge, Hugh
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
National Travel Club, 1935. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed black linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/faded backstrap. DJ/None. PO label to illustrated fEP. Three-dimensional "glasses", also New, to rear pocket. Story of the British expedition to Mount Everest in 1933 under the leadership of Hugh Ruttledge (1884 - 1961 who also lead the subsequent 1936 expedition. was an English mountaineer, and leader of two expeditions to Mount Everest in 1933 and 1936. It was during this expedition that Wyn-Harris found the ice axe which belonged to Andrew Irvine, who had disappeared on the peak on the 1924 British Expedition along with George Mallory. One of the sherpas on this expedition (as well as on the 1936 attempt) was Tenzing Norgay, who made the first ascent of Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009559
- Title
- ATTACK ON EVEREST
- Author
- Ruttledge, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- National Travel Club
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Adventure/Expedition/Mount Everest/British Expedition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering/Rock Climbing; Adventure/Expeditions;
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