Search Results: Mountaineering/Rock Climbing from 100 POCKETS

Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers & Univ of Washington Press, 1989. 2nd Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/faint creasings & rubs to edges and corner tips. First published 1967; this reprint retains original text & photographs with newly drawn maps.The orginal detailed account of the Press Exploring Expediton (1889 - 90) was in the newspaper Seattle Press, July 16, 1890. The Press, in the fall of 1889 (the year Washington became a state), called for "hardy citizens . . . to acquire fame by unveiling the mystery which wraps the land encircled by the snow capped Olympic range." Nothing more was written but for breif accounts here and there. Author Wood has returned to diaries of the expedition members and other original records to reconstruct the experiences of the The Press Party, which was composed of six men, four dogs, two mules, and 1500 pounds of supplies. An extraordinary adventure of near six… Read More

New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1998. First Edition, 2nd Printing . New/New. BRAND NEW Copy. Memoir of mountaineer and retired attorney Jim Wickwire (1940 - ) whose extraordinary accomplishments was featured on 60 Minutes, inspired a PBS, a Broadway play, and a full-length film. Wickwire, with Louis Reichardt, were the first Americans to conquer K2, world's 2nd highest mountain, on Sept 6, 1978. Staying on to photograph, Wickwire spent that very night in the open. An early episode in a life of challenges.

Zurich: Verlegt Bei Orell Fussli, 1924. Erstes und zweites Tausend . Printed Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 9/16" Tall. Climbing and mountaineering adventures and photographs from the "needles" of the Swiss Alps. 74 text pages, with Inhalt and Voraussetzung; plus 24 glossy pages, plates. Boards show fading and possible sticker shadow; text is strong and clean, but browning to mid-margin.

New York, NY: Coward, McCann, 1954. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Green linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; Strong & sound w/nips, chips, rubs to edges & small losses to upper spine corners; under mylar. Autobiography/memoir of Canadian-born mountaineer Earl Denman. A purist with little regard for modern equipment and well-heeled official expeditions, Denman was the first to scale all eight of the Virunga Mountains of Belgium Congo accompanied by only local guides before he set sights on a lone conquest of Everest in 1947. With a lean purse of $700 and the simplest of equipment he set off to Tibet despite Nepal's borders being closed to the Western world. Remarkably, he was able to persuade Tenzing Norgay (1914 - 1986) and Ang Dawato to partner with him. Everest did eluded them but the trio did reach the foot of the North Col before turning back. Denman will walk part of the way back to Darjeeling in bare feet after his boots wear… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1964. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed blue linen boards/NF. DJ/none, however, dustjacket inner flaps clipped and laid-in. Dyed upper text edge; map to endpapers. Record of first American ascent of Mt. Everest, 1963. Led by Swiss born explorer, film-maker, and veteran mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, whose father led international expeditions to Kangechejunga and Batoro in the 1930s. Sponsored by Nat'l Geographic Society, the expedition was scientific research in nature; the team was the most academically brilliant ... 5 members with doctorates and 8 holding masters degrees. May 22nd, 1963. Luther G/ Jerstad and Barry Bishop reach the summit of the South East Ridge via South Col route, while Will Usoeld and Tom Hornbein of the West Ridge team conquered the West Ridge/Northface; the two teams rendevous and descend together. July 8th, the Expedition was received at the White… Read More

Golden, Colorado, U.S.A.: Amer Alpine Club, 1999. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace wear to lower front corner. Annual publication; first issue, 1929. This volume presents a review of the world of climbing for 1998.

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1964. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Good. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed blue linen boards/NF. DJ/Good; nips, chips to edges & small losses to upper/lower spine & lower corners. Dyed upper text edge; map to endpapers. Record of first American ascent of Mt. Everest, 1963. Led by Swiss born explorer, film-maker, and veteran mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, whose father led international expeditions to Kangechejunga and Batoro in the 1930s. Sponsored by Nat'l Geographic Society, the expedition was scientific research in nature; the team was the most academically brilliant ... 5 members with doctorates and 8 holding masters degrees. May 22nd, 1963. Luther G/ Jerstad and Barry Bishop reach the summit of the South East Ridge via South Col route, while Will Usoeld and Tom Hornbein of the West Ridge team conquered the West Ridge/Northface; the two teams rendevous and descend together. July 8th, the Expedition was… Read More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1971. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Black linen boards/NF w/light wear. DJ/None. British mountaineer Sir Christian John Storey Bonington's (1934 - ) career includes 19 expeditions to the Himalayas. In 1970 Bonington led the first team to ascent the south face of Annapurna; this memoir is an account of the climb. The volume is dedicated to Ian Clough who lost his life on the expedition. This legendary climb is a first attempt at scaling, literally a wall, steep rock and ice at an extreme altitude. Out of it's success and out of this book, the last 30 years of mountaineering has benefitted much. Illustrated w/color photos the last being is a fold-out schematic of where fixed ropes were laid. Fine copy less dust jacket.

New York, NY: Random House, 1965. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Poor. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bicolor boards/Fine. DJ/Poor; sound w/nips, chips, closed tears, small losses to upper spine edge and to front cover. PO name to front cover verso. This book grew out of "experiences with the Chamonix guides ... a remarkable groups of men ... who taught" physicist Jeremy Bernstein "something about mountaineering ... and helped me with the material for the book." Through this volume Bernstein passes on an enthusiasm for alpinism --- that is, mountain climbing for its own sake.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Boards/Fine. DJ/VG; strong & sound w/edge wear. Brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to lower text edge. Bookdealer sticker to rear cover verso. Mountaineering adventures. Autobiography/memoir of father, Sir Edmund Hilliary (1919 - 2008), and son, Peter Hillary (1953 -), first father/son duo to ascent Everest. First published 1984, UK, under the title: Two Generations (1984).

London, UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. First Edition, 2nd Impression of 1953 . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Photographs (Various). Text/New & Bright. First Edition, 2nd Impression of Dec, 1953. Blue linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/NF w/trace edge rubs. DJ/NF; light edge wear & faint discoloration; under mylar. Upper text edge dyed blue. Frontis: Tenzin on Everest's summit, 29th May, 1953. Chronicle of the 1953 historic ascent of Mount Everest by leader of the British Expedition, Brigadier Henry Cecil John Hunt (1910 - 1998); Chapter 16 by new Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary (1919 - 2008) who, together with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (1914 - 1986), reached the summit on May 29th, 1953. 300 pgs, color & b/w photos, 18 chapters in 6 parts: I, Background; II, Plannin; III, Approach; IV, Build-up; V, Assault; and VI, Aftermath, followed by 9 Appendices by members of the Expedition & Glossary. Fine copy.

London, UK: The Percy Press, 1937. First Edition, First Thus . COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW w/trace discoloration to fEP (likely from having housed a newspaper clipping). Upper text edge dyed green. Green linen boards/VG; strong & sound, showing marked discoloration. DJ/None. One of the earliest of English-language histories of Himalayan climbing written for young readers. Published before the first ascent of Everest, the books ends with, "That man will subdue Everest ... We do not know when. In five years, ten years, fifty years perhaos. But the certainty is there. He will subdue Everest." Volume includes dramatic details of expeditions to Everest, Kanchenjunga, Nanda Devi, and Nanga Parbat.

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.

San Diego, CA: San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club, 1970. 3rd Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Red softcover/NF w/trace corner tip wear. First published 1931; updates to this 3rd Edition are primarily updates to available mountaineering equipment. Basic guide. 11 chapters w/illustrations: I, Equipment; II, Alpine Camping & Cooking; III, Orientation; IV, Weather; V, Climbing Miseries & First Aid; VI, Mountain Travel; VII, Rock Climbing; VIII, Winter Travel & Snow Climbing; IX, Glacier Travel; X, Desert Travel; and XI, Alpine Rescue.

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1974. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW w/trace soiling to title page verso & contents page. Blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; price-clipped else Fine. History of the sport of rock face scaling. Chronicle of major ascents from 1890 through Douglas Keith Scott's (1941 - ) own two visits to the South West Face of of Everest in 1972. He will, with Dougal Haston, become the first Britons to ascent that Big Wall on 24 September 1975. Volume includes maps, site descriptions, climbing techniques with photos, diagrams of modern paraphernalia.

London, UK: William Collins, 1942. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. NEAR FINE- COLLECTIBLE/Near Fine. Archival Photos & Illustrations. Text/NEW & Bright. Collectible, Vintage 1942 First Edition, First Thus. Illustrated, green boards/Fine. DJ/NF; under mylar. Spot to fEP. 1930's pioneers in British mountain climbing. Mountaineer, botanist, photographer, long advocate of mountain climbing not led by guides, and, member of the 3 Mount Everest expeditions of 1933, 1936 & 1938, Francis Sydney Smythe (1900 - 1949) relates history of, and personal experiences from, early days of the Alpine Club, which he joined in 1902. Illustrated archival illustrations w/8 color plates & 24 illustrations in b/w. 48 pgs in 5 chapters: I, The Pioneers; II, The Golden Age; III, The Fight for the Matterhorn; IV, The Growth of Mountaineering; V, The Himalayas: Mount Everest; and, VI, A Personal Adventure.

London, UK: William Collins, 1946. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. NEAR FINE- COLLECTIBLE/Near Fine. Archival Photos & Illustrations. Text/NEW & Bright. Collectible, Vintage 1942, 1946 Printing. Illustrated, green boards/Fine. DJ/VG; w/edge rubs to leading edges & price strike-out to rear inner flap. Showing discoloration to fEP w/PO name (Miss Helen Jolly), title page, and rear endpaper from once embedded clippings. 1930's pioneers in British mountain climbing. Mountaineer, botanist, photographer, member of the 3 Mount Everest expeditions of 1933, 1936 & 1938, Francis Sydney Smythe (1900 - 1949) relates history of, and personal experiences from, early days of the Alpine Club, which he joined in 1902. Illustrated archival illustrations w/8 color plates & 24 illustrations in b/w. 48 pgs in 5 chapters: I, The Pioneers; II, The Golden Age; III, The Fight for the Matterhorn; IV, The Growth of Mountaineering; V, The Himalayas: Mount Everest; and, VI, A Personal… Read More

Seattle, WA: Mountaineers Books, 1987. Second Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Flexible. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Beige, faux-leather flexible soft cover/NF w/faint creasing to lower front corner. First published 1973; this is the 2nd Revised Edition of 1987. Guide to Casade Range in Washington. Each section prefaced by overview, ranger stations, and maps. Contents are: Section I, Southern Cascades: Columbia River to White Pass; II, Southern Cascades: White Pass to Stampede Pass; III, North-Central Cascades (West Side): Stampede Pass to Deception Pass; and, IV, North-Central Cascades (East Side): Cle Elum to Stevens Pass.

München, Germany: Alpine Verlagsanstalt, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/As NEW, w/ age discoloration throughout. Illustrated boards/Fine. DJ/None. PO to fEP dated 1930. Fold-out map (also, NEW) to rear. 320 pgs with 16 photographic plates. Guide to Chiemsee, a freshwater lake in Bavaria, often called "the Bavarian Sea". The lake is fed by rivers Großache and Prien, and empties into the Danube. Period, late 1920s (a century past) advertisements to regional hotels populate rear pages.

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Stated First Edition. DJ/ with trace wear/under mylar. History of the ill-fated 1957 climb of Eiger, and a daring rescue, the circumstances of which are plagued by mysteries. The Eiger is a "living" mountain is under constant change (unstable weather, disintegrating limestone surfaces resulting in frequent avalanches, and perpetual fall of rocks and ice). These conditions are amplified on its north wall; one of the deadliest climbs in the world and having claimed so many lives it is called Mordwand (German for 'murderous wall'. In the fateful year of 1957, four climbers men set out ... two Italian (Claudio Corti and Stefano Longhi) and two German (Franz Meyer and Gunther Nothdurft). Nothdurft is not well, Longhi falls and can't be lifted up, and Corti is struck by falling stone. Corti is left w/tent and provisons while Meyer and Northdurft continue with the climb.… Read More