In good structural condition, no damage. The jacket and page edges have a fair degree of foxing but the text areas of the pages are mostly free of foxing. Please see all the photos.
At the time of writing this I have a number of historic vintage and antique books on mountains, mountaineering and exploration on sale - please see my other listings. I would be happy to offer multiple purchase and postage discounts. Please send me a message to discuss if interested.
The full list is:
High Adventure by Sir Edmund Hilary. 1955 Hardback first edition with dust jacket. Hilary's autobiography, up to and including the first ascent of Everest.
The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt. 1953 Hardback first edition. With the chapter on the final ascent by Edmund Hillary.
The Crossing of Antarctica - Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary. 1958. The story of the planning from 1955 and completion of the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1958.
The Innocent on Everest - Ralph Izzard 1955. Izzard was an English journalist, author, adventurer and, during World War II, a British Naval Intelligence officer under the command of Ian Fleming. He spent virtually his entire career with the Daily Mail. The stories he covered took him from Egypt to Algeria, Lebanon to Kenya, Korea and beyond. He wrote four books chronicling his experiences in India, Nepal and the Middle East. He is best known for this book ‘The Innocent on Everest’. He set out on his own, without a compass or map, to pursue John Hunt/Edmund Hillary's 1953 Everest expedition to its base camp at 18,000 ft. (As an aside Ian Fleming based elements of his first novel Casino Royale and its protagonist James Bond on Lieutenant Commander Izzard and a card game in which Izzard found himself playing poker against covert Nazi intelligence agents at a casino in Brazil.)
The Alps - Sir Martin Conway - 1910. The geography, history and topography of the Alps by a notable MP and Victorian explorer and mountaineer.
Forerunners To Everest 1954- the story of the two Swiss expeditions of 1952 that proved invaluable learning for the subsequent first successful ascent in 1953. Introduction by Sir John Hunt.
To The Unknown Mountain - Wilfrid Noyce 1962. He was a member of the 1953 Everest expedition. This book tells the story of the first ascent of Trivor in Karakoram Himalaya in 1960.
Alone To Everest - Earl Denman - 1955. Denman's illegal attempt to climb Everest in 1947 was very different from the large-scale efforts by British mountaineers around the same time. He had little experience, having only climbed the smaller Virunga mountains in East Africa before this expedition. He did not have much money, equipment, or fuel, and entered Tibet without permission. Two Sherpas (one of whom was Tenzing Norgay) joined his attempt which reached 22,000 feet before bad weather defeated them, given their limited equipment.
Savage Arena - Joe Tasker. 1980. Detailing multiple expeditions from the Eiger in 1975, Dungari (75), Changabang (76), K2 (78), Kangchenjunga (79), K2 (80).
Mountains of The Gods - Ian Cameron. A 1984 Royal Geographical Society book about the geography, history, culture, exploration and climbing expeditions of the Himalaya region.
Mount Everest: Formation, Population and Exploration of the Everest Region. Toni Hagen, translated by E Noel Bowman. 1st UK English edition hardback, 1963 Oxford University Press
Himalaya - Michael Palin. The book of the well known BBC series narrating Palins journey of 2003-2004 (Hardback, not currently listed separately).
On Top Of The World - 5 Women Explorers in Tibet - Luree Miller (paperback, not currently listed separately).