Everest: Eighty Years of Triumph and Tragedy
Author(s):
Gillman, Peter
Copyright: 2000, Mountaineers, Seattle
Specifications: rev ed, 4to, pp.240, color frontis, 150 color & 70 bw photos, 2 color & 3 bw maps, appendices, black cloth
Condition: signed 15 - Pete Athans, George Band, Barry Blanchard, Carlos Buhler, Aid Burgess, Dave Hahn, Charley Mace, Simone Moro, Glenn Porzak, Gerry Roach, Nazir Sabir, P. V. Scoturo, Steve Swenson, & Ed Webster + 1, dj unclipped, fine, cloth tight, fine
This expanded edition of Gillman’s marvelous anthology of writing and photographs, some previously unpublished, is a must-have for the Everest bibliophile. Included are writings by Mallory, Finch, Odell, Somervell, Longland, Smythe, Shipton, Lambert, Hillary, Tenzing, Fu Chou, Hornbein, Gyatso, Boardman, Scott, Habeler, Zawada, Coffey, Buhler, Stokes, Bonington, Wood, Venables, Stephens, Boukreev, Krakauer, Ang Rita, Anker, and many others. Also included are extensive lists of every ascent through 2000.