White Fury. Gaurisankar and Cho Oyu... Translated from the French By Showell Styles
by Lambert, Raymond and Claude Kogan
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1956 VG/VG. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (a few old tape marks to cloth & endpapers, prev. owner's rsm to front pastedown) in dustwrapper (rubbed, spine ends & tail edge a little frayed); pp. 176, with 21 illustrations & a map. A very good copy. [Neate L05: Account of the Franco-Swiss expedition of 1954, reconnoitring the difficult Gaurisankar (7145m) and Menlungtse. The party then attempted Cho Oyu (8156m) being beaten by winter gales. Lambert, a Swiss guide, made an heroic attempt to gain Everest's south summit in 1952. Claude Kogan, a leading French climber, died on Cho Oyu in 1959].. First English.
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- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008802
- Title
- White Fury. Gaurisankar and Cho Oyu... Translated from the French By Showell Styles
- Author
- Lambert, Raymond and Claude Kogan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hurst & Blackett
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
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Castlemaine, Victoria
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