Mount Everest: Thron der Götter [Mount Everest: Throne of the Gods]
Author(s):
Herrligkoffer, Karl
Copyright: 1982, Langen-Müller, München
Specifications: rev ed, 4to, pp.318, 31 color & 84 bw photos, map eps, blue cloth
Condition: dj unclipped, fine, cloth w/ name, tight, fine
This is an expanded edition from the earlier 1973 publication. It’s a great history of Everest with a chronology of all expeditions from 1921 to 1981, including a thorough accounting of Herrligkoffer’s own European Everest Expedition in 1972 which attempted the unclimbed SW Face. In German, no English translation.