Bergsteigen Technik in Fels und Eis [Mountaineering Technique on Rock and Ice]
Author(s):
Schatz, Ruedi & Ernst Reiss
Copyright: 1967, Schweizer Alpen-Club, Zürich
Specifications: 1st, small 8vo, pp.175, 144 bw photos, many figs, dec blue cloth
Condition: signed ‘Ernst Reiss Lhotse 8516m. 18.5.1956’, issued w/o dj, cloth w/ slight rippling to some rear pages, else vg+
A still useful guide to rock and ice technique. Reiss was a member of the 1956 Swiss Everest-Lhotse expedition. He and Fritz Luchsinger made the first ascent of Lhotse, fourth highest in the world.