Author: HILLARY Edmund
Title: High in the Thin Cold Air. [The Story of the Himalayan Expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia]. [First UK Edition]. FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Hodder & Stoughton,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps coloured in outline; original grey tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in red, fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition 1960-61, which includes a search for the yeti and an attempt on Makalu. Published a year after the US edition. Neate 371.

Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, himalayas, edmund hillary, desmond doig, makalu, yeti, desmond doig


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