The ascent of Everest / John Hunt
1954, 3rd edition. London : Hodder & Stoughton. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owner's signature and dedicatory. Item #386033
Physical description; xx, 299 pp., 48 pages of plates : frontispiece, illustrations (some color), maps, 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Part I: Background. Perspective -- The problem -- Part II: Planning. Preparations: one -- Preparations: two -- Part III: Approach. To Nepal -- To Khumbu -- Rehearsals -- Icefall -- Part IV: Build-up. Stock-piling -- Lhotse Face: one -- The plan -- Lhotse Face: two -- Part V: Assault. South Col: one -- South Col: two -- South Peak -- The summit by Edmund Hillary -- Part VI: Aftermath. Return -- Reflections -- Appendices. Diary of the expedition, September 1952-June 1953, compiled by Wilfrid Noyce -- Preparations for the Everest Expedition 1953: organization -- Basis for planning -- Equipment, by Charles Wylie -- Oxygen, by Tom Bourdillion -- Diet, by Griffith Pugh and George Band -- Physiology and medicine, by Griffith Pugh and Michael Ward -- Everest, 1953: Assault load tables -- Acknowledgments of assistance in launching the expedition. Subjects; Hunt, John Hunt Baron 1910-1998. Mount Everest Expedition (1953). Mountaineering. Himalaya mountains.
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