Kulu and Lahoul
Author(s):
Bruce, Gen. C. G.
Copyright: 1914, Arnold, London
Specifications: 1st, thick 8vo, pp.xii, 308 + 8 ads, photo frontis w/ tissue guard, 34 bw photos, 2 maps (1 color fldg), silver lettered dark green cloth
Condition: cloth rubbed, crack to lower front hinge, H(ugh) Heber Cholmondeley bookplate & signed Colin Monteath, foxing to prelims, several early pages tape, vg
Account of six months climbing and exploration in 1912. Bruce and a small party went to the largely unexplored region between Garhwal and Kashmir, making ascents up to 19,000’. He later went on to lead the second and third British Everest expeditions. Cholmondeley was a noted Canterbury, NZ humanitarian and Monteath a well-known NZ author, mountaineer, and photographer. Scarce.
Neate B198, Yak B278.
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