EVEREST THE WEST RIDGE. Thomas F. Hornbein 1965 1st Edition Dust Jacket Fine Signed by 5 Summiters! Thomas F Hornbein, James Whittaker, Barry Bishop, Lute Jerstad, Nawang Gombu, plus Gil Roberts, Brent Bishop Last Multi Signed Copy (Hornbein, Thomas F.)

	Item #: OP327H-838p EVEREST THE WEST RIDGE. Thomas F. Hornbein 1965 1st Edition Dust Jacket Fine Signed by 5 Summiters! Thomas F Hornbein, James Whittaker, Barry Bishop, Lute Jerstad, Nawang Gombu, plus Gil Roberts, Brent Bishop Last Multi Signed Copy By Hornbein, Thomas F. Price: $1195.00 List Price: $3500.00 You Save $2305.00 (66%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1965, 1st edition. 203 pp, 92 color plates. Edited by David Brower (actually by his son Ken Brower.) Beautiful large-format edition. DJ, Fine. This book is large and heavy and we will request extra postage for Media Mail, Priority Mail or International Mail. This is our last copy signed by most of the Everest team. We were blessed to have been able to access these wonderful men who put America on the Everest map. Signed by 5 summiters: Tom Hornbein, Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Nawang Gombu and Barry Bishop; also Gil Roberts and Brent Bishop (Barry's son, 3 Everest summits). The only 1963 summiter missing is Willi Unsoeld who died on Mount Rainier in 1979, just a few years before we started preserving the signatures of these great climbers. The ascent of the West Ridge of Everest by Hornbein and Unsoeld was one of the most daring and elegant routes ever done in the Himalaya. This book has become a classic. It was the first new route on Everest since the first ascent, it was the first traverse of an 8000m peak, the fourth successful expedition, and these men were 10th through 14th climbers to summit Everest. Nawang Gombu, a nephew of Tenzing Norgay, became the first person to climb Everest twice as he went back a few years later with an all Indian party. 'If we can pull it off,' said Norman Dyhrenfurth of Everest's West Ridge, 'it would be the biggest possible thing still to be accomplished in Himalayan mountaineering.' The man making this judgment was leader of the American Mount Everest Expedition of 1963, an effort which put the first Americans on the summit, via the South Col route. When, on the same expedition, author Thomas Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld reached the summit via the West Ridge -- a route which had been dismissed as hopeless by all previous expeditions -- their unique ascent and traverse of Everest was indeed a milestone in mountaineering. With no possible way of retracing their steps once committed to the West Ridge, Hornbein and Unsoeld pushed on to gain the summit, then were forced to bivouac at 28,000 feet with no food, shelter or oxygen. Their incredible climb and survival -- a story of man versus rock and ice and his own weakness -- is unforgettablely told in EVEREST: THE WEST RIDGE. In this edition, Hornbein's sensitive text is accented by many of the beautiful photos which first won acclaim for the book, plus additional high-altitude climbing photos from the expedition never before seen in book form. This is a classic story, not just for climbers but also for those to whom Everest remains, as William Siri writes in the Introduction, '...a universal symbol of human courage and endurance; an ultimate test of man's body and spirit.'
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