The Fight for Everest: 1924

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In green cloth, some blind tooling, gilt titles, corners bumped, edges rubbed. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped & worn, small mark. Internally, half title, coloured frontis, [6], (vii-xi), [1], 372 pp, 32 full page illustrations 8 coloured), 2 maps (both folding, 1 coloured), lacking small frontis corner tip, occasional spot, faint edge browning, new endpapers, top edge cut remainder not. (254*173 mm). (Neate *573) Made up of: Introduction / Sir F. Younghusband -- Narrative: The start / C.G. Bruce ; The march across Tibet / E.F. Norton ; The Rongbuk glacier / J.G. Bruce ; The North Col / E.F. Norton ; Norton and Somervell's attempt / E.F. Norton ; Mallory and Irvine's attempt / N.E. Odell ; The return to base camp / E.F. Norton ; The return journey / B. Beetham ; Future possibilities / E.F. Norton -- Mallory's letters -- Observations: Physiological difficulties / R.W.C. Hingston ; Natural history / R.W.G. Hingston ; Geology and glaciology / N.E. Odell ; Photography / B. Beetham ; On the use of oxygen / N.E. Odell ; The organization of the expedition / E.F. Norton and others.