EVEREST THE WEST RIDGE. Thomas F. Hornbein 1965 1st Edition Dust Jacket Fine Signed by 3 Summiters! Thomas F Hornbein, Barry Bishop, Lute Jerstad, Ome of our last Multi Signed Copies (Hornbein, Thomas F.)

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	Item #: OP327J-829p EVEREST THE WEST RIDGE. Thomas F. Hornbein 1965 1st Edition Dust Jacket Fine Signed by 3 Summiters! Thomas F Hornbein, Barry Bishop, Lute Jerstad, Ome of our last Multi Signed Copies By Hornbein, Thomas F. Price: $395.00 List Price: $500.00 You Save $105.00 (21%) 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 Tom Hornbein, Barry Bishop and Lute Jerstad. Also, loosely inserted in the book are SIGNED letters from Tom Hornbein and Lute Jerstad. Signed with a brief message and the dates signed by 3 summiters: Tom Hornbein, Lute Jerstad, and Barry Bishop. The 1963 summiters missing are Willi Unsoeld who died on Mount Rainier in 1979, Nawang Gombu who died in 2011, and Jim Whittaker, who as of June 2024 is the last man left from 1963. 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. Hornbein's sensitive text is accented by many of the beautiful photos which first won acclaim for the book. 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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