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KANGCHENJUNGA ADVENTURE Frank Smythe 1930 1st UK ed Hardcover Fine
By Smythe, Frank
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London, 1930, 1st edition. 464 pp, 48 b/w plates. Green cloth Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine is slightly faed, else fine. No writing, hinges are tight, no foxing, no external wear to the cover. Fine condition. 

An account of the 1930 international expedition, with Swiss, Germans, British and an Austrian that made a serious Kanchenjunga attempt. Leader was G.O. Dyhrenfurth. A personal account of the attempt, in 1930, to climb Kangchenjunga and the successful ascent of the Jonsong Peak, 24,344 feet, and other great peaks of the Eastern Himalayas, by a party of mountaineers from four nations - Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Great Britain, under the leadership of Professor G. Dyhrenfurth.

Members of the team including Smythe did a first ascent of Jongsong Peak. Jongsong Peak is a mountain in the Janak section of the Himalayas. At 7462 metres 24,482 ft, it is the 57th highest peak in the world, although it is dominated by the 3rd highest, Kangchenjunga, 20 km or 12 miles to the south. Jongsong's summit is on tripoint of India, Nepal and China. Until the first ascent of Kamet on 21 June 1931, Jongsong was the highest climbed peak in the world.

Smythe was at the forefront of early Alpine and Himalayan mountaineering - adding two major routes on Mont Blanc and being a key player on Kangchenjunga (1930) and Everest (1933, 1936 and 1938). On Everest, in 1933, he reached 28,100ft without using supplementary oxygen, his strong bid stopped by poor snow conditions and the lack of a partner. 

Smythe was the climber who came closest to success prior to Hillary and Tenzing and their peers (all using supplementary oxygen) and it was not until Messner's ascents in 1978 without oxygen tanks, and later solo, that Smythe's performance, in physiological terms, was bettered. After the successful Kamet expedition in 1931 he returned to this superb Garhwal region in 1937 to make a series of important first ascents in lightweight style.

here is somebody so far ahead of the pack that the peleton thinks that they lapped him, except he was lapping them.


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