SIGNED by Chris Bonington
Seattle, 1982, 1st edition. 264 pp, 24 color plates, maps, index. Carstenz, Kangchenjunga, Gaurisankar ascents. [Neate B119.] Original blue cloth hardcover, dust jacket, Fine.
SACRED SUMMITS by Peter Boardman was already in proof when its author went off to Everest for the last time in 1982. So Peter and Joe never signed any books after 1981. It covers three very different expeditions - to the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea with his future wife in 1978-9, the impressive four-man first ascent of Kangchenjunga North Ridge (1979), and later that year the first ascent of the South Summit of Gauri Sankar by its gruelling West Ridge in a team of five.