Author: NOYCE Wilfrid
Title: South Col. One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953. [Line drawings and endpaper portraits by A.J. Veilhan.] BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Heinemann,, [1954]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations and maps in the text, and portrait endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Arguably the best of the personal accounts of the first successful Everest expedition. On 21 May Noyce and Annullu were the first members of the team to reach the South Col, so lifting morale of the expedition as a whole. 'One of the best of the many Everest books' (Neate). Neate *576.

Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, rock climbing, everest, himalayas, noyce, wilfrid noyce


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