Escape from Lucania

Little, Brown, London, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Hardcover. 206 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Little, Brown, London, 2003. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Corners of boards are lightly bumped. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: By 1937, Mount Lucania, at 17,150 feet, was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. It was not sheer technical difficulty that made Lucania redoubtable; it was the mountain's inaccessibility, lying in the centre of the sprawling Wrangell-St Elias wilderness, a labyrinth of huge glaciers and high, corniced ridges. In one of the most extraordinary feats of mountaineering achievement, Bradford Washburn and Bob Bates made the first ascent that year. But it's not simply the fact that the two men reached the summit that wins admiration, it is the style in which they did so. Owing to critical flukes of weather and logistics, Washburn and Bates found themselves suddenly stranded in the heart of that complex range, with inadequate gear and provisions. With astounding pluck, they pulled off the ascent in the course of escaping from a trap that would have cost other climbers their lives. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Mountaineering; ISBN: 0316724882. ISBN/EAN: 9780316724883. Inventory No: 22100030.. 9780316724883