Hall and Ball. Kiwi Mountaineers from Mount Cook to Everest
by MONTEATH, Colin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Christchurch: Hedgehog House, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Christchurch, Hedgehog House, 1997. Square quarto, 160 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Papered boards; top corners a little bumped, bottom edges lightly rubbed; an excellent copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the half-title. 'As expedition climbers, Rob Hall and Gary Ball formed the most dynamic and accomplished mountaineering partnership New Zealand has ever seen. With 47 international expeditions between them, to some of the highest and remotest peaks in the world, they ventured to all seven continents.... Gary climbed Everest twice before his death on Dhaulagiri in 1993; Rob went on to complete five ascents of Everest before his death on the South Summit in 1996'.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95750
- Title
- Hall and Ball. Kiwi Mountaineers from Mount Cook to Everest
- Author
- MONTEATH, Colin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hedgehog House
- Place of Publication
- Christchurch
- Date Published
- 1997
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