My Vertical World: Climbing the 8000-metre Peaks
Author(s):
Kukuczka, Jerzy
Copyright: 1992, Hodder & Stoughton, London
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.x, 189, 19 color photos, 14 bw illus, map, blue cloth
Condition: dj unclipped, very fine, cloth tight, very fine
Kukuczka was the second person to climb all 14 of the 8000m peaks, after Messner. All but one of his climbs were by new routes or were first winter ascents. Sadly, he was killed while making an attempt on Lhotse’s South Face in 1989, prior to this book being published. This has become a hard to find title.