KARAKORAM: THE ASCENT OF GASHERBRUM IV Fosco Maraini 1961 1st UK edition Hardcover DJ Fine (Maraini, Fosco)

	Item #: OP143D-829 KARAKORAM: THE ASCENT OF GASHERBRUM IV Fosco Maraini 1961 1st UK edition Hardcover DJ Fine By Maraini, Fosco Price: $75.00 List Price: $150.00 You Save $75.00 (50%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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London, 1961, 1st UK edition. 320 pp, 108 color illustrations. Hardcover with its Dust Jacket, Book and DJ are both Fine. One of the finest depictions of the Karakoram region by a noted Italian scholar and climber. This describes the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV, which is still considered an extreme Himalayan climb. Gasherbrum IV at 29,725' is the 17th highest peak in the world, the 6th highest in Pakistan. Its first ascent, described in this book, was accomplished in 1958 by Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri, and the team leader was Riccardo Cassin. At the same time they were climbing this peak, Nick Clinch, Andy Kauffman and Pete Schoening and crew were making the first ascent of Gasherbrum 1, nearby. This was the only American 1st ascent of an 8000 meter peak. Also, a Japanaese expedition came later in the summer to climb Chogolisa and found the diary of Hermann Buhl who had just died there, and gave it to Schoening, who gave it to Frau Buhl, Buhl's widow. The leader of the American Gasherbrum expedition, Nick Clinch, who bought books from us, told me that the Italians had brought along their own Italian chef to cook incredible Italian cuisine for their team. Their basecamps were not far apart, and the Americans tried to always pay a friendly visit about dinner time. (That reminds me of a story I recently read about the Army grunts on Guadalcanal. Their food wasn't very good, so whenever they could they would quietly get in the Marines' chow, who tolerated it until it got out of hand.) This book is so well written (and translated from Italian) that we feel that all people interested in teh Karakoram should read it. The Karakoram is a great mountain system in Northeast Pakistan and Northern India, near the Chinese border. It extends 300 miles southeastward from the Pamir Knot, and includes many of the world's highest peaks, and many of the world's longest glaciers. Among the high peaks is K2 at 8611 meters, the second highest mountain in the world, only 237 meters lower than Mount Everest. Its glaciers include, among others, the 47 mile Siachen glacier, the 36 mile Baltoro glacier, and the 76-mile combination of Hispar and Biafo, which connect at a pass. The Baltoro glacier is especially significant, as ten of the world's thirty highest peaks cluster around it, including four 8,000 meter peaks (K2, Broad Peak and three peaks of the Gashberbrum massif) that rise very close together at the northeast head of the glacier. The Karakoram closely parallels the Himalaya, but its peaks differ from those of the Himalaya in their sharp, angular forms. Their icy peaks are often surrounded by incredible clusters of towers and spires. The Karakoram Range also receives less monsoon activity than the Himalaya. In fact, many of the valleys deep in the range are very dry. The peaks, however, receive heavy winter precipitation, and with or without monsoon rains, travel is made difficult by the run off of melting snow and ice in July and August, which otherwise are the best months for mountaineering. The range is largely uninhabited, so approach to the mountains requires expedition style planning.
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