Kangchenjunga. The Untrodden Peak
EVANS, Charles
FIRST ASCENT OF KANGCHENJUNGA; SIGNED BY EIGHT [OF NINE] TEAM MEMBERS
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1956]
Stock code: 51866
Price: £2,600.00
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 4 coloured plates, 32 plates in monochrome, and maps and diagrams in the text; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at fold-ins..
SIGNED ON HALF-TITLE BY EIGHT [OF NINE] EXPEDITION MEMBERS: CHARLES EVANS (leader); GEORGE BAND (first ascenter); JOE BROWN (first ascenter); NEIL MATHER; JOHN CLEGG (doctor); JOHN ANGELO JACKSON; TOM MACKINNON; TONY STREATHER (second ascenter). Not signed by Norman Hardie (deputy leader; second ascenter), probably because by publication date he had returned to New Zealand. The first ascent took place on 25 May 1955 (Brown; Band) followed the next day by Hardie and Streather. LOOSELY INSERTED IS AN A.L.s. FROM EVANS THANKING A COLLEAGUE 'FOR ALL YOU DID', TOGTHER WITH A NEWSPAPER CUTTING RECORDING HIS ACCOUNT OF THE FINAL PUSH AND CONFIRMING THAT BROWN AND BAND STOPPED ' A FEW FEET' SHORT OF THE SUMMIT TO RESPECT THE RELIGIOUS FEELINGS OF THE LOCAL SIKKIMESE. A SPLENDID COPY OF AN IMPORTANT (AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE) COPY. Neate *249.