last blue mountain foreword sir de barker ralph (6 résultats)

1st. Very Good pp212. 22 illus. 3 maps & diagrams. price is torn off dw-.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 211 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm. Subjects; Mountaineering accidents Pakistan Haramosh. Mountaineering expeditions Pakistan Haramosh. Haramosh (Pakistan) Description and travel. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 211 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm. Subjects; Mountaineering accidents Pakistan Haramosh. Mountaineering expeditions Pakistan Haramosh. Haramosh (Pakistan) Description and travel. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss at rear panel and two short closed tears. The story of the ill-fated 1957 expedition on Haramosh in the Karakorum. SCARCE. Neate 58.

London: Chatto & Windus. 1959. 8vo. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers (price-clipped and with fraying to margins); pp. 211; sketch maps and plates after photographs; a good association copy.First edition, together with a letter by the mother of one of the participating mountaineers, who was later killed during another climbing tour. "The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them. The group's efforts to return to safety are increasingly desperate, hampered by injury, exhaustion and the loss of vital climbing gear. Against the odds, Jillott and Emery manage to climb out of the snow basin and head for camp, hoping to reach food, water and assistance in time to save themselves and their companions from an icy grave" (prospectus for a modern edition). Later, "John Emery was killed in an accident while descending the Weisshorn on August 4, 1963, at the age of twenty-nine. With all the major difficulties of the Schalligrat and the North ridge behind them, he and his American companion, David Sowles, had nearly completed the traverse of the mountain, and were within close reach of easy ground, when they fell roped together" (Alpine Journal 1963, p. 347).Provenance: Together with a letter by Emery's mother, thanking the recipient Ms Clucas for a letter of condolence. "It is difficult to believe that this terrible news is true". Obituary form the Daily Telegraph mounted onto front fly-leaf.

1st. Near Fine pp212. 22 illus. 3 maps & diagrams. A unique copy Signed by the Author Ralph BARKER, Tony Streather the Leader and (Lord) John Hunt who wrote the foreword. pc dw-.