Author: Hunt, John Hunt Baron (1910-1998)
Title: The ascent of Everest
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton 1953. 1st Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xx. 299 pages. 48 pages of plates: frontispiece. illustrations (some color). maps; 23 cm. 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 Everest. Mount (China and Nepal). Mountaineers Great Britain; Biography. Everest. Mount (China and Nepal) Description and travel. Himalaya Mountains. Genre: Illustrated.

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