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Dittert, Rene; Chevalley, Gabriel; Lambert, Raymond

Forerunners to Everest. The Story of the Two Swiss Expeditions of 1952

New York Harper & Brothers Publishers No date. [c.1953]. First American edition. Preface b y Brigadier Sir John Hunt. English version by Malcolm Barnes. 256pp. Color frontis, profusely illustrated with black & white photos; map. Dark blue cloth. A very fine copy with very slightly chipped pictorial dust jacket. This expedition nearly reached the top a year before Hillary.

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