Comprising: C. K. Howard-Bury, Mount Everest The Reconnaissance (1922); C. G. Bruce, The Assault On Mount Everest (1923); E. F. Norton, The Fight For Everest (1925); Hugh Ruttledge, Everest 1933 (1934); Hugh Ruttledge, Everest The Unfinished Adventur
The Everest Collection Comprising: C. K. Howard-Bury, Mount Everest The Reconnaissance (1922); C. G. Bruce, The Assault On Mount Everest (1923); E. F. Norton, The Fight For Everest (1925); Hugh Ruttledge, Everest 1933 (1934); Hugh Ruttledge, Everest The Unfinished Adventur
1922.
Six volumes, all first editions. The first three volumes in the original publisher's cloth, lettered and decoated gilt. The final three volumes in original publisher's cloth and the original pictorial dustwrappers. The final volume, The Ascent Of Everest, is signed by Edmund Hillary on the front free endpaper. A near fine set, the condition of the books generally excellent.
On the 29th May 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary became the first people to stand on the highest point on earth. It is one of the landmark achievements in the history of exploration, and one that stood on the shoulders of previous expeditions.
This collection of books charts the expeditions that led them to the summit of Mount Everest (29,031 feet). In all, they are a complete set of first editions of the original accounts of British expeditions reconnaissancing and attempting Everest, from 1921 to 1953.
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