Kangchenjunga: the untrodden peak

Langue : anglais

Edité par Hodder & Stoughton, 1956

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Price-clipped, Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Oil stain on jacket through to front board. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate to heavy edge wear with tears, chips, is price-clipped and some areas of loss. On the 25th May 1955 George Band and Joe Brown stood perhaps 20 feet from the summit of Kangchenjunga. They would never stand on the highest point on the mountain but Kangchenjunga had been climbed. The story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga is told by the leader of the expedition, Charles Evans, in his book Kangchenjunga-The Untrodden Peak. The team was made up of Evans, Norman Hardie, Tom Mackinnon, John Jackson, Neil Mather, Tony Streather, George Band, Joe Brown and the team doctor, John Clegg. The youngest member was Joe Brown who was 24. It had been agreed that if the team reached the top of the mountain they would stop short of the highest point because of its religious importance to the local people. Charles Evans carefully details the large amount of work needed to prepare the early camps, and by the 4th May Camp Three was established at 21,800 ft.…

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Titre
Kangchenjunga: the untrodden peak
Auteur
Charles Evans
Éditeur
Hodder & Stoughton
Année de publication
1956
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Fair
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
Édition
1st Edition

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