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Bonington, Chris

The Ultimate Challenge. The Hardest Way Up the Highest Mountain in the World

New York Stein and Day 1973, First edition. Blue cloth. Very fine with pictorial dust jacket (spineof jacket slightly faded but without any tears or clipping). 56 black & white and color plates, folding map, numerous line drawings. Appendices include planning, equipment list, food, oxygen, communications, medical notes, etc.. Story of the author's defeated attempt to climb the Southwest face of Everest in the autum of 1972. He got within 600 feet of the summit.

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