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Item #: MW1956-861
MOUNTAIN WORLD 1956/1957 Hardcover DJ Very Good-Fine
By Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research
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London or New York, 1957. 200 pp, b/w photos, sketches, maps. In English.
Brown cloth hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket may be chipped, book is fine. Very Good to Fine.
Mount McKinley by Washburn, Kangchenjunga, Makalu 1st ascent, Everest 2nd ascent and Lhotse 1st ascent, Baltistan. Produced from 1946-1969 by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research.
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Contents include: Alpine Prelude by Othmar Gurtner, Ebnefluh - Ernst Reiss, Torre Venezia, The History of a Glacier, Field Research and Expeditionary Mountaineering, University Peak - Alaska, The Virungas - Arnold Heim, Kamet 1955 - Nandu Jayal, Everest 1956, Lhotse 1956, The Peaks around Chogo Lungma, and more. Maps and sketches include: Laminated Glacier Flow, Greenland West Coast Glaciers, Blue Ice Lamina on the Movement Division, Cross-section through Kirunga-cha-gongo, and much more.
MOUNTAIN WORLD and BERGE DER WELT was published from 1946 to 1969 only in German and French
but not in English until 1953 to 1969.
MOUNTAIN WORLD was published from 1953 to 1969 in English in the USA and UK. There is no difference between the USA and UK editions.
MOUNTAIN WORLD from 1946 to 1952 was published in hardcover and paperback only in German and French. The English language editions 1953 to 1969 were published only in hardcover with a dust jacket.
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