THE FIRST ASCENT OF YALUNG KANG [KANGCHENJUNA WEST] 1973 Academic Alpine Club of Kyoto (Academic Alpine Club of Kyoto)

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Kyoto, 1975, 1st edition. 166 pp, plus 72 pp of color and b/w photos. In Japanese, but the endpaper maps are in English. The first ascent of Kangchenjunga West, technically an '8000 meter Peak' at 8505 Meters, only 81 meters lower than the main peak of Kangchenjunga, by a Japanese party on May 14, 1973. This is the second highest of the five peaks of Kangchenjunga. Climbers Yutaka Ageta and Takeo Matsuda summitted Kangchenjunga West (Yalung Kang) by climbing the Southwest Ridge. Larger hardcover with DJ. DJ has some edge wear but no chips, book is as New. Listed in Yakushi 2nd edition j246, and on Peakware.com and Wikipedia.com.
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