K2: The Savage Mountain
Author(s):
Houston, Charles, Robert Bates, et al.
Copyright: 1954, McGraw-Hill, NY
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.334, 9 color & 27 bw photos, 3 maps, appendices, red/black cloth
Condition: signed Bob Bates, Robert Craig, Charles Houston, & Dee Molenaar, dj w/ edge wear, clipped, vg, cloth fine
Account of the 1953 3rd American Karakoram expedition to K2. One of the pinnacles of American Himalayan mountaineering with Pete Schoening's incredible belay saving the entire expedition. Neate H118, Yak H245.