Mountain World 1953
Author(s):
Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research
Copyright: 1953, Harper, NY
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.220, 60 bw photos (2 fldg), fldg photo, 12 maps/sketches, brown cloth
Condition: cloth very good+
Majority of the book devoted to the 1952 Swiss Everest expedition. Also includes mountaineering in Bolivia, Peru, Greenland, and a great 41” separate photo panorama of the Khumbu Glacier, stretching from Taweche to Nuptse, by André Roch, worth framing. This is the first of a great series of ten volumes that ran from 1953 to 1969.
Neate j78, SB S62, Yak S112.