ALS BERGSTEIGER IM KAUKASUS [A MOUNTAINEER IN THE CAUCASUS] Vilem Heckel, Arnost Cernik 1968 Hardcover DJ Fine (Heckel, Vilem and Arnost Cernik)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Chessler Books has Closed. [ Read More ]

	Item #: OP6814-855 ALS BERGSTEIGER IM KAUKASUS [A MOUNTAINEER IN THE CAUCASUS] Vilem Heckel, Arnost Cernik 1968 Hardcover DJ Fine By Heckel, Vilem and Arnost Cernik Price: $45.00 Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
Detailed Product Description
Prague, 1968. 1st German edition. 192 pp, b/w and color photos, foldout color map. In German. Pictorial linen hardcover with dust jacket. Fine. Rare travel and experience report by Vilm Heckel and A. Cernik in 1968. As this book is ten years newer than his previous book Climbing in the Caucasus, the book is better in some ways. There is more modern climbing, and the photos are better and better printed. Wikipedia: Vil�m Heckel (Plze� � 31 May 1970 ) was a Czech photographer. He devoted himself mainly to landscape photography, with special focus on the photography of mountains. Vil�m Heckel was one of the founders of the genre of industrial and promotional photography in Czechoslovakia. In 1970, a group of mountain climbers together with Heckel planned to visit Alaska. Their intention was thwarted by the Czechoslovak communist regime. Following the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, it was almost impossible to travel to Western countries. The group changed their plan and decided to climb peaks in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca. Heckel and several of his colleagues planned to leave the expedition and focus more on the studying and documenting of Peruvian culture. However, after the death of one of the leaders of the expedition, climber Ivan Bortel, they were forced to stay in the camp with the rest of the expedition. On 1 June 1970, Heckel and his colleagues intended to separate from the rest of the group. Coincidentally, the avalanche caused by Great Peruvian earthquake buried their camp under Huascar�n on 31 May 1970, the day before their departure. All of the members of the expedition died. I could not locate it on the Internet, but I recall that other foreign climbers were also killed that day. Wikipedia now has a page listing all significant Peruvian earthquakes in Peru from 1513 - 2022. This was by far the deadliest ever recorded. There are books about it. A book we have carried on the 1970 earthquake is NO BELLS TO TOLL: DESTRUCTION AND CREATION IN THE ANDES Barbara Bode 1990.
Other Items You Might Like
Similar Items Available Items From This Author Items From This Category UN FOTOGRAFO DA PRAGA [A PRAGUE PHOTOGRAPHER] Vilem Heckel 1987 Softcover Near Fine *By: Heckel, Vilem* Price $4.99 ~ Regular $40.00, You Save $35.01 (88%) *- Item # OP5149-933* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart CLIMBER and CLIMBER AND RAMBLER MAGAZINE UK (Not a set) $5 per issue As available *By: Climber and Rambler Magazine* Price $5.00 *- Item # JR251-121* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart SUMMIT MAGAZINE USA BACK ISSUES 1960s: This List is of Available Issues between 1960-1969 *By: Summit Magazine* Price $10.00 ~ Regular $20.00, You Save $10.00 (50%) *- Item # JR154J-868* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart TRAVELS IN THE CENTRAL CAUCASUS AND BASHAN Douglas W. Freshfield 1869 1st ed Hardcover Near Fine *By: Freshfield, Douglas W.* Price $395.00 ~ Regular $590.00, You Save $195.00 (33%) *- Item # OP3770-857* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart IM KAUKASUS [IN THE CAUCASUS] C. Egger 1915 1st ed Hardcover Fine *By: Egger, Carl* Price $29.99 ~ Regular $99.95, You Save $69.96 (70%) *- Item # OP6249-471* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart HOCHGEBIRGSWANDERUNGEN IN ALPEN UND IM KAUKASUS [HIGH MOUNTAIN HIKES IN THE ALPS AND CAUCASUS] Andreas Fischer 1913 Hardcover Fine 2 Copies Available Slipcase *By: Fischer, Andreas* Price $4.99 ~ Regular $49.95, You Save $44.96 (90%) *- Item # OP6396-9542* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart FROM A TRAMP'S WALLET: A LIFE OF DOUGLAS WILLIAM FRESHFIELD Hervey Fisher 2001 1st ed Fine Hardcover DJ *By: Fisher, Hervey* Price $39.95 ~ Regular $45.00, You Save $5.05 (11%) *- Item # BK2335S-855* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart FROM A TRAMP'S WALLET: A LIFE OF DOUGLAS WILLIAM FRESHFIELD Hervey Fisher 2001 1st ed Fine Hardcover No DJ *By: Fisher, Hervey* Price $19.95 ~ Regular $45.00, You Save $25.05 (56%) *- Item # BK2335B-855* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart LOU WHITTAKER: MEMOIRS OF A MOUNTAIN GUIDE 1994 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine + ephemera SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Lou Whittaker 3 Copies Available *By: Whittaker, Lou, and Andrea Gabbard* Price $45.95 *- Item # BK1684B-7993* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart ON THE EDGE OF EUROPE: MOUNTAINEERING IN THE CAUCASUS 1993 1st ed Hardcover DJ As New SIGNED by Audrey Salkeld *By: Salkeld, Audrey and Jose Luis Bermudez* Price $150.00 *- Item # BK1788-830* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart Sorry, we were unable find any similar items available by this author. SOLITUDINE SULLA EST: ETTORE ZAPPAROLI E IL MONTE ROSA ROMANTICO [LONLINESS ON THE EAST: ETTORE ZAPPAROLI AND THE ROMANTIC MONTE ROSA Eugenio Pesci 1997 Paperback New *By: Pesci, Eugenio* Price $4.99 ~ Regular $9.95, You Save $4.96 (50%) *- Item # BK6627-861* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart NANDA DEVI: THE TRAGIC EXPEDITION John Roskelley 1987 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by John Roskelley *By: Roskelley, John* Price $125.00 *- Item # OP189E-844* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart EVEREST A MONTAINEERING HISTORY Walt Unsworth 1981 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Fine 3 Copies Available SIGNED by Kurt Diemberger *By: Unsworth, Walt* Price $9.99 ~ Regular $60.00, You Save $50.01 (83%) *- Item # OP1833H-8292* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MANASLU 1952-53 Japanese Alpine Club 1954 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine *By: Japanese Alpine Club* Price $325.00 *- Item # OP743G-829p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE CHALLENGE Reinhold Messner 1977 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Reinhold Messner Multiple Copies Available *By: Messner, Reinhold* Price $135.00 ~ Regular $250.00, You Save $115.00 (46%) *- Item # OP194B-7994* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart AMERICAN ALPINE JOURNAL 1962 Multiple copies available [3 Alaska articles plus color photos of Frostbite fingers and feet] Cassin McKinley *By: American Alpine Club 1962 Journal* Price $75.00 *- Item # AAJ1962-2334* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart MOUNTAINEERING WOMEN: STORIES BY EARLY CLIMBERS David Mazel 1994 1st ed Hardcover DJ Fine *By: Mazel, David* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $35.00, You Save $15.01 (43%) *- Item # BK968A-861* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart GREAT EXPLORERS Roderic Owen 1995 Hardcover DJ Near Fine *By: Owen, Roderic* Price $15.00 ~ Regular $30.00, You Save $15.00 (50%) *- Item # PL8148-883p* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart FOUR AGAINST EVEREST Woodrow Wilson Sayre 1964 1st US ed Hardcover DJ Fine SIGNED by Woodrow Sayre *By: Sayre, Woodrow Wilson* Price $145.00 *- Item # OP46D-829* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart THE BARON OF PICCADILLY: THE TRAVELS AND ENTERTAINMENTS OF ALBERT SMITH 1816-1860 Raymund Fitzsimons 1967 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine *By: Fitzsimons, Raymund* Price $19.99 ~ Regular $50.00, You Save $30.01 (60%) *- Item # OP1936-829* View Details Add To Cart Adding... Added! Click To View Cart