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NY: Dutton. Fair. (1960). 1st Amer ed. Amazing pictures of the treacherous climb including triple fold-out including 13,042 summit of Eiger. Owner name, . Crack along bottom half of spine, spine and top faded, line marks along front cover. .

London, England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Octavo, 9.25 in.x 6.25 in., pp. 240. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs, and fold-out photo of The Eiger showing the route. Blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering to spine. Light staining and sunning to edges of boards. Previous owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. A couple chips along top edge of dustjacket; ink stain at top of dustjacket spine. The Eiger is a 3,967-metre mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. "The author also has brilliantly analyzed the values and ethics of moutaineering and the reasons why men risk their lives to scale such forbidding peaks and test their own qualities to the utmost..." (from rear dj flap).

London, England: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus In Good Plus Dust Jacket. Blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering to spine. Corners nudged and bottom of spine bumped, but solid. Toning and previous owner's inked inscription to front free endpaper. Edgewear and cracking to dust jacket extremities. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout, and Route Map to the North Face. Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick. Illustrated by photographs, including a fold-out. 240 pp., including index. The Eiger is a 3,967-metre mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. "The author also has brilliantly analyzed the values and ethics of moutaineering and the reasons why men risk their lives to scale such forbidding peaks and test their own qualities to the utmost..." (from rear dj flap).