Incredible Ascents to Everest: Celebrating 60 Years of the First Successful Ascent
Author(s):
Nagrath, Sumati
Copyright: 2013, US
Specifications: 1st, 4to, pp.224, photo frontis, 100 color & 55 bw photos, 2 color & 1 bw illus, photo eps, pictorial cloth
Condition: dj & cloth new
Nagrath presents a nice, large-format, book focusing on the early Everest attempts, the successful ascent by Hillary and Tenzing, the Sherpa, Yuichiro Miura, Junko Tabei, Reinhold Messner, Tom Whittaker, Erik Weihenmeyer, Min Bahadur Sherchan, Elizabeth Hawley, and more. Includes a number of less-common photos.