Descent Into Chaos : The Doomed Expedition to Low's Gully

London: Brassey's. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (2010). First Edition. Hardcover. 1857531477 . Previous owner's name. A couple of 15mm tears at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xiii, [1], 142 pages + 16 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. 3 full page maps within the pagination. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 232 x 151mm. "In early March 1994, five members of a British Army expedition emerged from Low's Gully, a five mile long hell hole falling away from Mount Kinabalu in the jungle of Borneo. However, the achievement of the five - mostly fit and able young British non-commissioned officers - in being the first to conquer Low's Gully was overshadowed by the fact that the other five members of their team - two relatively old and senior British officers and three young novice Chinese storemen and guards - were apparently still lost in the gully. What had gone wrong and why had the group broken the golden rule for such expeditions - never split up? The rescue attempt by Malaysian and British servicement and local people became a daily feature in the newspapers and on television. Then the five, seemingly against the odds, were found alive and reasonably well. Shortly afterwards, one of the officerse sold his story to the Daily Mail and publicly blamed the members of the first group to emerge for the debacle; these claims were repeated in a book, SOS, subsequently written by the two officers. Yet the findings of the Board of Inquiry into the incident went against the officers, the Board taking the view that the leader's judgement and leadership were flawed." - from dust-jacket blurb. .