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Pfetzer, Mark & Jim Galvin Within Reach: My Everest Story 1998 Dutton NY 1st, 8vo, pp.224, 18 color photos, red/black cloth; dj unclipped, fine, cloth tight, fine #14265 $16.95 $7.95
Mark Pfetzer tells of his introduction to climbing at an early age and ‘youngest to summit’ records on Pisco, Huascaran, Cotopaxi, Ama Dablam, and Cho Oyu. He has also attempted Everest via both the north and south routes. In 1996 he returned as a member of Henry Todd’s Himalayan Guides team. On the[read more]
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Pierre, Bernard Ils Ont Conquis l’Himalaya [They Conquered the Himalaya] 1979 Plon Paris 1st, 8vo, pp.250, 27 color & 33 bw photos, 3 maps, wraps; spine faded, vg+. #16898 $25.00
Historical overview of major ascents in the Himalaya starting with the early expeditions at the turn of the century. In French, no English translation.[read more]
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Pierre, Bernard Ils Ont Conquis l’Himalaya [They Conquered the Himalaya] 1981 Loisirs Paris rep, 8vo, pp.256, 27 color & 33 bw photos, 4 maps/sketches, white cloth; cloth fine #19726 $35.00
Historical overview of major ascents in the Himalaya starting with the early expeditions at the turn of the century. In French, no English translation.[read more]
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Pierre, Bernard Ils Ont Conquis l’Himalaya [They Conquered the Himalaya] 1981 Loisirs Paris rep, 8vo, pp.256, 27 color & 33 bw photos, 4 maps/sketches, white cloth; dj w/ small edge tears, near fine, cloth fine. #19725 $39.00
Historical overview of major ascents in the Himalaya starting with the early expeditions at the turn of the century. In French, no English translation.[read more]
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Pierse, Simon Kangchenjunga: Imaging a Himalayan Mountain 2005 Wales 1st, oblong 8vo, pp.127, color frontis, 18 color & 41 bw photos, 1 fig, map, wraps; new. #24129 $29.95
A marvelous book created as a catalogue to accompany an exhibition of 56 paintings, prints and photographs of the third highest mountain in the world. The exhibition, which showed at The Alpine Club in London in May-June 2005 as part of a series of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the fir[read more]
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Piotrowska, Danuta, ed. Lhotse 1974: In Memoriam Tadeusz Piotrowski 2017 Poland 1st, square 8vo, pp.311, photo frontis, 171 bw photos, map, appendices, photo eps, pictorial cloth; signed, issued w/o dj, cloth w/ slight bump from shipping, else new #27341 $84.95
Tadeusz Piotrowski (1939-1986) was one of the great Polish mountaineers specializing in winter ascents. These included Trollryggen (Norway, 1972, 1974, 1977), Noshaq (Afghanistan, 1973), Tirich Mir (Afghanistan, 1978), Rakaposhi (Pakistan, 1979), Distaghil Sar (Pakistan, 1980), and Api (Nepal, 1983)[read more]
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Porter, John One Day As A Tiger 2014 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 230, 74 color & 4 bw photos, black cloth; signed, dj & cloth new #26763 $45.95
In the autumn of 1982, a single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and struck Alex MacIntyre on the head, killing him instantly and robbing the climbing world of one of its greatest talents.
Although only twenty-eight years old, Alex was already one of the leading figures of Brit[read more]
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Porter, John One Day As A Tiger 2014 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 230, 74 color & 4 bw photos, black cloth; dj edges rubbed, unclipped, fine, cloth tight, fine #27849 $29.00
In the autumn of 1982, a single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and struck Alex MacIntyre on the head, killing him instantly and robbing the climbing world of one of its greatest talents.
Although only twenty-eight years old, Alex was already one of the leading figures of Brit[read more]
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Prince, Cathryn J. Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman 2019 US 1st, 8vo, pp.xi, 304, 19 bw photos, black cloth; dj & cloth new #27673 $28.95
Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a helmet, Workman was a force on the mountain and off. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan mountai[read more]
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Purandare, Nandini & Deepa Balsavar Headstrap: Legends and Lore from the Climbing Sherpas of Darjeeling 2024 US 1st, 8vo, pp.319, 41 bw photos, 3 bw maps, appendices, wraps; new #27944 $29.95
In the twenty-first century, it is generally understood that Sherpas, synonymous with mountain climbing, come from Nepal and live in the Everest region. Less well known is that during the nineteenth century Sherpas and other local climbers seeking work started traversing mountain passes from Nepal t[read more]
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Purja, Nimsdai Beyond Possible: One Man, 14 Peaks, and the Mountaineering Achievement of a Lifetime 2022 US 1st thus, 8vo, pp.319, 27 color photos, appendices, black cloth; dj & cloth new #27826 $29.95
Fourteen mountains on Earth tower over 8,000 metres above sea level, an altitude where the brain and body withers and dies. Until recently, the world record for climbing them all stood at nearly eight years.
So I announced I was summiting them in under seven months.
People laughed. They told m[read more]
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Purja, Nimsdai Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks – My Life in the Death Zone 2020 UK 3rd prtg, 8vo, pp.x, 305, 38 color photos, red cloth; signed on bp, dj & cloth new #27743 $125.00
Fourteen mountains on Earth tower over 8,000 metres above sea level, an altitude where the brain and body withers and dies. Until recently, the world record for climbing them all stood at nearly eight years.
So I announced I was summiting them in under seven months.
People laughed. They told m[read more]
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Rideout, Tanis Above All Things 2013 US 1st, 8vo, pp.387, blue/green cloth; dj & cloth new #26442 $26.95
Rideout’s debut novel of obsession and divided loyalties weaves together the harrowing story of George Mallory's ill-fated 1924 attempt to be the first man to conquer Everest with that of a single day in the life of his wife as she waits at home in England for news of his return. A captivating blen[read more]
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Roach, Gerry Transcendent Summits: One Climber's Route to Self-Discovery 2004 US 1st, 8vo, pp.ix, 212, 42 bw photos, wraps; fine #25156 $9.00
In his gripping autobiography, world-class climber Roach tells an action-packed tale of self-discovery and spiritual growth laced with hard-edged reality. This candid memoir revisits boyhood ambitions and a man’s ascents on some of the most captivating peaks: the Third Flatiron, Longs Peak, the Gran[read more]
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Roch, André Climbs of My Youth 1949 Lindsay Drummond London 1st, 8vo, pp.159, photo frontis, 17 bw photos, brown cloth; cloth fine. #15053 $29.00
Roch was one of the great Swiss climbers and climbed in the Himalaya in 1939 and 1947. He was also a member of the 1952 Everest expedition. From the collection of American mountaineer Richard Irvin with his signature. Neate R57.[read more]
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Roch, André Garhwal Himalaya: Expèdition Suisse 1939 1947 Attinger Neuchatel 1st, 8vo, pp.171, color frontis, 43 bw photos, 3 maps, wraps; partially unopened, inkstamp on fep, vg+. #17583 $29.00
Account of the 1939 four-man Swiss expedition which climbed several peaks in the Garhwal including Dunagiri (7066m). In French, no English translation.[read more]
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Roch, André Karakoram Himalaya: Bezwingung von Siebentausendern 1947 Rascher Zürich 1st thus 8vo, pp.177, color frontis, 33 bw photos, 3 maps, light brown cloth; dj vg, cloth fine #26824 $29.00 $19.00
Account of the 1934 Swiss/International Reconnaissance expedition to Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak) led by Gunter Dyhrenfurth. This is the first German edition, published two years after the French softcover edition,, no English translation.
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Roch, André Karakoram Himalaya: Sommets de 7000m 1945 Attinger Neuchatel 1st, 8vo, pp.187, color frontis, 35 bw photos, 3 maps, wraps; vg+. #17404 $29.00
Account of the 1934 Swiss/International Reconnaissance expedition to Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak) led by Gunter Dyhrenfurth. In French, no English translation.[read more]
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Roper, Robert Fatal Mountaineer: The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend 2002 US 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 306, photo frontis, 13 color & 10 bw photos, blue cloth; dj unclipped, fine, cloth tight, fine #22327 $29.00
Unsoeld was one of America’s great mountaineers. Roper focuses primarily on Unsoeld’s 1963 Everest and 1976 Nanda Devi expeditions. It was on the latter that Unsoeld lost his daughter Nanda Devi
Winner of the 2002 Boardman Tasker Mountaineering Literature Award.[read more]
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Roskelley, John Last Days: A World-famous Climber Challenges the Himalayas' Tawoche and Menlungtse 1991 Stackpole Harrisburg 1st, 8vo, pp.211, 33 color photos, 3 maps/drawings, tan/red cloth; signed Roskelley & Jeff Lowe, dj fine, cloth w/ name stamp, else fine #26135 $49.00 $45.00
Roskelley has had a long and successful career and here describes two climbs - Tawoche (21,535’, 1989) and Menlungtse (23,560’, 1990). Lowe was a member of the Tawoche team.[read more]
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