Doug scott foreword (5 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Mountaineers Books (1998). Soft cover. Very good condition. A nice clean copy.

Softcover. Zustand: As New. The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Everest celebrates the spirit to mount the ultimate peak?"Because," as George Mallory famously summed up, "it is there." This new anthology encompasses the assaults on Everest from the beginnings in 1921, through Sir Edmund Hillary's achievement in 1953, to the notorious 1996 "extreme-tourism" disaster caught so memorably in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air. There are the legendary climbs of Mallory, Irvine's tragic disappearance, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 first ascent, and Reinhold Messner's solo ascent?without the use of oxygen tanks?in 1980. There are also such electrifying tales by Mallory on surviving an avalanche in 1922, and Jon Krakauer on the 1996 disasters, plus more stories from "the roof of the world" by such climber-writers as Eric Shipton, Tom Hornbein, Frank Smythe, Bill Tilman, Wilfred Noyce, Walt Unsworth, and many more.…

Paperback. Zustand: nrFine. 1st Thus. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAL RATES APPLY GB £6. Packed weight 1300g.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. near fine. First American Edition. 7.75" 7.5", 348 pp, indexed and extensively illustrated. Fine copy in near fine jacket with just a touch of surface wear. Neate S31: "History of severre big wall climbers, written by a leading British mountaineer. Very well illustrated.".

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.