Mount everest (39 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. xxvii, 98, large folding col map in pocket. . PB. Vg. Some light marginal soiling to one section of folding map, otherwise clean. From the library of Prof. Jim Green (1928-2016), Professor of Zoology at Queen Mary College, University of London, with his name to half-title and margin of map. Map of the Moun…

8°. 376 S. mit einigen Abbildungen und Photos. Opbd. (beiliegend ausgeschnittene Teile des Schutzumschlags). Gutes Exemplar. Erste Ausgabe. Die Anthropologin der New Yorker Columbia University, die seit mehr als 30 Jahren Studien und Feldforschung zu den Sherpas betreibt hat für vorliegendes Buch 30 von ihnen interviewt. Dazu ha…

Condizione: Sehr gut. Original plastic covers with softcover book, xxvii, 98 pages and a very large folding colour map, plastic cover at one point broken, otherwise very good condition. The introduction is by Michael Ward, member of the 1953 first Everest ascent team. The gazetteer was compiled by Peter Lloyd, member of the 1938…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. "Climbing Everest by a route no man had ever tried before. Knowing that they could not reach the summit with time to get down. Knowing that the route they chose did not allow them to turn back or retreat. "Hornbein never admits it in this book, but he had to know that death was more probable th…

DER EINSAME SIEG Mount Everest 78 Originalausgabe, Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, München 1979, 223 SS. Pb. gr. 8°, mit vielen Farbfotos. - von Peter Habeler eigenhändig signiert (dito als HARDCOVER, Edition Horizonte Weltbild, 221 SS. gebunden, gut erhalten - mit eigenhändiger Widmung für Thomas, Empfehlung, Datum, Unterschrift signi…

HC. 382 [2] pp, fold-out map, B&W Photographs Dutch edition, likely first edition, covering the Everest expedition from rist to third attempt to reach the top, with the tragic death of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine who disappeared without a trace for 75 years. Only in 1999 was Mallory's corpse found and identified. We may nev…

4°. Mit 35 Bildern und 2 Karten. VIII SS., 1 Bl., 199 SS. OLn. mit goldgepr. Titel a.d. Rücken und Vorderdeckel (guter Erhaltungszustand). Inhalt: "Der Reisebericht. Zum Standlager. Der Sturm auf den Gipfel. Die Heimkehr über Kharta. Der Erste Versuch. Die Aufgabe. Das Hochlager. Der höchste Punkt. Der Vorstoß mit Sauerstoff. De…

Hardcover. On Monday the Third of April 1933 two Westland machines of the Houston Mount Everest Expedition made an aerial survey of the summit of the World's highest peak. Pilots: The Marquis of Clydesdale (Houston Westland) and and Flight Lieutenant D.F McIintyre. Contents: I. Apologia Nostra II. The Ways and Means III. The Fli…

Newspaper. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. VG. First edition. 8pp. Illustrated with photographs. Printed as a Supplement to The Times newspaper dated Tuesday May 5 1953. Size 31.5 by 45.9cms. Articles include; 'The Pyramid Of Hard-Won Experience', 'The Everest Story', and 'Preparations For The Assault' by Colonel John Hunt…

London 1922, Royal Geographical Soc. New stiff wrs., article extracted from The Geographical Journal Vol. LX -No. 3, Se- ptember 1922, pp. 218-220, 3 b.w. photos, very good. Covers the expedition of 1922 with Mallorhy, Morshead, Bruce & Noel, Wakefeld, Somervell, Morris, Norton, Finch, Longst- aff, G. Bruce, Strutt & Crawford. W…

Autogrammkarte (blanko, Postkartenformat mit aufgezogenem kleinen Porträtfoto, darunter Daten getippt), eigenhändig signiert (dito : Großfoto (Farbrepro,4°) , eigenhändig signiert Euro 95,-; kleines Farbportraitfoto eigenhändig signiert Euro 75,-; eigenhändige Unterschrift auf Himalayan Trust stationary Euro 65,-; Eigenhändige U…

Condizione: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light blue cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine, photographic end papers showing route up Everest. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Author's first book. Contains [viii] 2, 188 printed pages of text with 16 pages of archive monochrome photographs thro…

Condizione: Fine. New York, March 29th and April 11th, 1934., 1934. Fine. - Two letters, the first dated "March 29th/34" is a 4 page letter "written from 1112 Park Avenue New York" with the return address of "22 Chester Street, London SW. 1" It consists of over 240 words penned on 4 sides of 6-1/2 inch high by 5-1/8 inch wide cr…

4to. 1 p. Mount Everest Expedition 1953. A group of twelve ink signatures of the Expedition members, including two index cards, the first signed and inscribed by Edmund Hillary, 'Everest 1953. E. P. Hillary, 8/7/53' and signed beneath on the same card by W. G. Lowe, a second index card signed by expedition leader, 'John Hunt, Le…

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 312. A perfect gif…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Colour Kodac print on matte paper: 3 and 3/8 x 5 inches (8.5 x 12.5 cm). In good condition, with light indentation of paperclip at head. A smiling elderly Hunt stands, with plaid shirt and hands in pockets of brown trousers, looking to his right, in front of a range of mountains. On the reverse i…