Author: NOYCE, WILFRID.
Title: South Coll. One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953.
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1962. 1st edition. "Wilfrid Noyce was the first member of the 1953 Everest Expedition to accomplish the ascent of the South Col - the small plateau just below the summit - from which the successful party subsequently set out..This book gives what no official narrative can possibly give - a record of the thousand-nd-one physical and mental sensations that crowded in upon one highly sensitive person who is both a climber and a writer..Includes the poems written by the author on the expedition." Pp.xx/303, colour frontispiece + 3 further colour photo plates, 5 maps, 48 black & white photo plates and 16 drawings, illustrated endpapers. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has chipped wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips. VG/VG.

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