London, 1993, 40th anniversary edition. 280 pp, 48 plates. Published by the Mount Everest Foundation to commemorate the 40th anniversary, this is a facsimile of the First Edition. Photo reproduction is much better than the first edition. Leather binding. Includes a page of real signatures of the whole team who were alive in 1993, and slipcase. Limited to 500 copies. SIGNED in 1993 by Ed Hillary, John Hunt, Michael Westmacott, Griffith Pugh, Charles Wylie, Charles Evans, Michael Ward, Alf Gregory, George Lowe and George Band. These signatures are on a single page with the 40th Anniversary logo at the top of the page with the printed text: 'This Edition is limited to Five Hundred Numbered copies of which One to Fifty are presentation copies. It has been signed by members of the British 1953 Expedition to Mount Everest to mark the 40th Anniversary of the First Ascent on 29th May 1953'. Condition is New in a slipcase.
