London, 1956, 1st edition. 210 pp, 22 b/w photos. Blue cloth hardcover with dust jacket. There is no writing in the book or other flaws, and the dust jacket has no tears or chips and is not price clipped. The Dust Jacket is protected by a removable clear plastic cover that we call a Brodart, they are the makers of the book covers. The Dust Jacket and the Book are in Fine condition.
This book is not uncommon, there are copies available online. However, none have as nice a Dust Jacket as this copy, and with as Fine and clean a book.
This was a very severe climb in the Andes by a French team, now considered one of the great climbs in the Andes. First ascent of the difficult South Face of the highest mountain in South America, conquered by a team of French climbers who overcame the impossible. Reinhold Messner considers it one of the world's three great mountain faces, along with the Eiger and Nanga Parbat.
