- 908
Mount Everest--Ruttledge, Hugh
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200 - 300 GBP
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Description
- Everest: The Unfinished Adventure. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937
- Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (254 x 172mm.), [xvi], 296pp., [ii pp.], 2 folding maps, 63 photographic illustrations, original blue cloth, photo-illustrated dust-jacket
Literature
Yakushi (1994) R414
Catalogue Note
After failure several years earlier in 1933, Ruttledge was invited to lead the sixth British attempt on Everest. After several recent failed expeditions, the pressure on Ruttledge's team to succeed was great. However, despite the potential of the talented team he had assembled, they were forced to abort the attempt after an exceptionally early monsoon.