New York, Harper & Brothers, 1957, 1st edition. 224 pp, 25 b/w plates, color frontis. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine.
SIGNED on a loose tipped in card by Ernst Reiss, who made the first ascent of Lhotse with Fritz Luchsinger
First ascent of Lhotse and the 2nd of Everest by the Swiss. The main summit of Lhotse was first climbed on May 18, 1956 by the Swiss team of Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger from the Swiss Mount Everest/Lhotse Expedition. On May 12, 1979, Sepp Mayerl and Rolf Walter of Austria made the first ascent of Lhotse Shar. Lhotse Middle remained, for a long time, the highest unclimbed named point on Earth; on May 23, 2001, its first ascent was made by Eugeny Vinogradsky, Sergei Timofeev, Alexei Bolotov and Petr Kuznetsov of a Russian expedition. Lhotse is the fourth highest peak in the world.
