High in the Thin Cold Air
HILLARY, Edmund, Desmond, DOIG.
[The Story of the Himalayan Expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia]. [First UK Edition].
FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1963]
Stock code: 37736
Price: £34.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps coloured in outline; original grey tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in red, fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
The story of the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition 1960-61, which includes a search for the yeti and an attempt on Makalu. Published a year after the US edition. Neate 371.