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 Wisedale, Sean Freeze Frame
2006 South Africa 1st, 4to, pp.vii, 231, photo frontis, 502 color & 22 bw hotos, pictorial cloth; signed, dj & cloth new #25634 $69.00
Wisedale is a South African film-maker who has not only climbed the Seven Summits, the first African to do so, but has produced a documentary film on each peak. This profusely-illustrated book covers his climbs on Everest (1996, 2003), Vinson (1998), Aconcagua (2002), McKinley (2002), Elbrus (2003)[read more]
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Wolfe, Art The High Himalaya
2001 US 1st, oblong 8vo, pp.160, many color photos, black cloth; 1st, oblong 8vo, pp.160, 175 color photos, 2 color maps, black cloth #22197 $44.95 $5.00
Wolfe has been called “the most prolific and sensitive recorder of a rapidly vanishing natural world”. Now internationally acclaimed nature photographer Art Wolfe captures the magic of the world’s most magnificent mountain landscape, the high Himalaya.
Through wonderful photos taken on journeys t[read more]
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Wollaston, Mary, ed. Letters and Diaries of A. F. R. Wollaston
2013 US 1st thus, 8vo, pp.xiii, 261, photo frontis, 3 bw photos, wraps; new #27737 $39.99
Wollaston (1875-1931), an English doctor, ornithologist, botanist, climber, and explorer, served as Medical Officer for the 1921 British Mount Everest Expedition. Originally published in 1933, and edited by his wife Mary, this is a collection of extracts from Wollaston’s letters and diaries beginnin[read more]
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Wollaston, Nicholas My Father, Sandy
2003 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.192, 19 bw photos, black cloth; dj & cloth new #23027 $25.95
Sandy Wollaston was an explorer, undertaking expeditions to New Guinea, the Sahara, and Africa. In 1921, he was a member of the British expedition to make the first reconnaissance of Everest. Written seventy years after his father was murdered, Wollaston has produced a sensitive memoir that provid[read more]
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Wood, Sharon Rising: Becoming the First North American Woman on Everest
2020 US 1st, 8vo, pp.237, photo frontis, 12 color photos, black cloth; dj & cloth new #27689 $24.95
On May 20, 1986, high on Everest, Sharon Wood was ready to give up. Snow plumes swirled off the summit ridge and spilled down the North Face, engulfing her. A four-hundred-foot high rock wall, the crux of the Hornbein Couloir, loomed above―impossible. Then Wood’s partner, Dwayne Congdon, handed her [read more]
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Wylie, Linda ed. Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer
2001 US rep, 8vo, pp.xxiv, 240, 51 color & 1 bw photos, 3 maps, wraps; inscribed by Wylie to Audrey (Salkeld) & dated 20 May 2005, fine #27823 $25.00
Anatoli Boukreev is perhaps, for better or worse, best known for his role in the 1996 Everest disaster. His account of that event, The Climb, is a compelling read and became a bestseller. Wylie, Boukreev’s companion, provides a more complete picture of this great climber. There are accounts of his c[read more]
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Younghusband, Sir Francis Everest: The Challenge
1936 Nelson NY 1st, 8vo, pp.ix, 243, photo frontis, 15 bw photos, 3 maps, map eps, green cloth; dj chipped, unclipped, good, cloth frontis loosening, bookplate, tight, fine #12134 $95.00
Everest through the 1936 attempt, Nanga Parbat, Kamet, Trisul, Nanda Devi, and early Himalayan pilgrims. This is the second US copy I’ve seen with the jacket priced in UK Pounds.
Neate Y28, SB Y10, Yak Y18.[read more]
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Younghusband, Sir Francis Everest: The Challenge
1936 Nelson London 2nd, prtg, 8vo, pp.ix, 243, photo frontis, 15 bw photos, 3 maps, map eps, green cloth; cloth rubbed, spot on back cover, vg. #11737 $35.00
Everest through the 1936 attempt, Nanga Parbat, Kamet, Trisul, Nanda Devi, and early Himalayan pilgrims. This second printing contains a new account of the 1936 expedition. Neate Y28, SB Y10, Yak Y18.[read more]
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Younghusband, Sir Francis The Epic of Mount Everest: The Historic Account of Mallory’s Expeditions
2000 UK rep, 8vo, pp.xviii, 254, 16 bw photos, 2 maps, wraps; fine #11736 $5.00
A summary of the first three British expeditions to Everest by one of the major organizers. Neate Y27, SB Y09, Yak Y15.[read more]
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Zuckerman, Peter & Amanda Padoan Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2’s Deadliest Day
2012 US 1st, 8vo, pp.xvi, 285, 31 color photos, 9 maps, appendices, black/white cloth; dj & cloth new #26094 $26.95
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, two Sherpas survived. They had[read more]
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