$320 - MEN AGAINST THE CLOUDS, BURDSALL & EMMONS, Bodley Head, London, 1935, 1st UK edn., 270 page VG+ hardback in original purple cloth with VG jacket, minor chips to edges, B&W plates,

MEN AGAINST THE CLOUDS, BURDSALL & EMMONS, Bodley Head, London, 1935, 1st UK edn., 270 page VG+ hardback in original purple cloth with VG jacket, minor chips to edges, B&W plates, foxing, map of SW China as endpapers, One of the great saga's of 20th century climbing began in 1930 when a rather eccentric botanist Joseph Rock surrveyed a remote stretch of mountains in Szechwan and declared the peak Minya Konka,the highest peak in the world with a height of over 30,000 feet.This claim needed to be verified,and the mountain needed to be climbed so then the book is the extraordinary tale of a small team of four American climbers who reached the summit in 1932. Additional contributions by climbers Terris Moore and Jack Theodore Young. Scarce especially in this condition $320 Ex Libris John Nankervis

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MEN AGAINST THE CLOUDS, BURDSALL & EMMONS, Bodley Head, London, 1935, 1st UK edn., 270 page VG+ hardback in original purple cloth with VG jacket, minor chips to edges, B&W plates, foxing, map of SW China as endpapers, One of the great saga's of 20th century climbing began in 1930 when a rather eccentric botanist Joseph Rock surrveyed a remote stretch of mountains in Szechwan and declared the peak Minya Konka,the highest peak in the world with a height of over 30,000 feet.This claim needed to be verified,and the mountain needed to be climbed so then the book is the extraordinary tale of a small team of four American climbers who reached the summit in 1932. Additional contributions by climbers Terris Moore and Jack Theodore Young. Scarce especially in this condition $320 Ex Libris John Nankervis