UK. Bradt, 1986, 1st UK edition. 273 pp, b/w photos, illustrations, glossary, maps. Blue and cream hardcover with dust jacket. Both Very Fine.
This is the first time we have had the UK edition. The DJ is different from the US ed, the side is about 1/2'' less, but overall a nice copy.
This copy has nice SIGNATURE and INSCRIPTION on the title page to Debra, not the fellow we bought it from. What is nice is Phil wrote Namaste*, and then some writing in Nepali!
Namaste is the usual greeting in Hindu countries such as India and the the countries where climber go, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. ''The word comes from Sanskrit and literally means “bowing to you” or “I bow to you,” and is used as a greeting.'' From Google, where else?
The author spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in a remote mountain village of Nepal and then set off to climb Pharchamo, 20,580 feet high.
Seen from the pass the mountain is an attractive but straightforward snow peak with a well defined north by north-west ridge rising from the relatively flat, crevassed glacier astride the Tesi Lapche. To the west of the ridge the face forms a uniform snow slope broken by crevasses and small seracs rising from the rocky lower buttresses above the Drolambau Glacier.
