The First Swiss Expedition to Mount Everest, 1952. by WYSS-DUNANT, Ed - 1953

London: Edward Stanford, Royal Geographical Society, 1953. 8vo. 14 pages, plus photographic plates for illustration. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, containing other accounts as well, seldom found in such good and original condition. Team leader Dr. Edouard Wyss-Dunant shares his most gripping firsthand account of Switzerland's first Everest expedition, an adventure of remarkable success and perilous crevasse crossings, exceeding even the most optimistic of expectations. Dramatic photographs taken on the mountain make this account especially memorable. A reconnaissance mission, its objectives included exploration to ascertain access to the South Col, finding a possible advance to the South Col, and the conquest of the labyrinthine Khumbu ice fall. The men indeed succeeded in climbing the Khumbu icefall which still today is considered one of the most dangerous stages of the South Col route, and subsequently made the ascent of the South Col (7986 m). As well, Lambert and Sherpa Tenzing reached a height of about 8500 metres on the south-west ridge of Everest. . First Edition.