SPORTS & RECREATION / Mountaineering from

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1993. HEAVY. 208pp, index, sources, bibliography, list of ascents (1953-92), num ills (most col). Black cloth in jacket. Short tear at top of each flap fold, otherwise only light edge wear to jacket. The authors and photographers represented range from the epic attemps of the 1920s and 1930s such as those of Finch and Somervell;… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Ski Club of Victoria , 1986. HEAVY. xiii, 731pp, index, appendices, bw & few col ills, maps, pictorial endpapers. Black cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968. 155pp, appendices, bw ills, endpaper maps. Blue cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped, some foxing to prelims. Philip Tranter and 3 friends drove a Land Rover 6000 miles from Scotland to Nuristan to explore some of the central Hindu Kush; to attempt the second ascent of Koh-i-Krebek (20500ft) by a new route from the south;… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1979. HEAVY. x, 326pp, index, bibliography, num bw & col ills, map. Or blue cloth in jacket. Edges of cloth silverfished, prev owner name on front free endpaper, a couple of tiny dark spots on top edge. Diaries and photographs by members of a 1975 mountaineering expedition to K2 and the Karakoram.. Second Printing. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005. 224pp, index, maps, col ills. Or boards in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. Detailed maps and routes for expeditions on six continents.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.