London, 1958, 1st edition. 150 pp, 25 b/w and one color illustrations. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles on spine and chipped dust jacket. Book is fine. Near Fine overall.
British first ascent of Machapuchare in 1957. Account of the five-man Himlayan expedition of 1957 to climb Machapuchare, Nepalese for the Fish's Tail, a 22,958 peak in Nepal which the author described as the most difficult and spectacular mountain that he had been on.