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Seventy years ago on the 29th May two men successfully reached the summit of Everest – Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. A remarkable and historic achievement, which caused a sensation around the world, particularly since Everest had been shadowed by tragedy from the many unsuccessful attempts in the past.
One example of this tragic past, is the 1933 Everest Expedition, led by Hugh Ruttledge who narrates the story in his book Everest 1933. This was the first attempt since the disastrous 1924 expedition which killed Mallory and Irvine. The weather as well as disagreements among members of the party caused the 1933 expedition to fail.
Despite this failure Ruttledge was chosen to lead the next expedition in 1936: Everest the unfinished adventure. Many of the same men took part including Frank Smythe and Eric Shipton. Ruttledge also included Tenzing Norgay, who later reached the summit with Hillary in 1953.
Norgay’s autobiography gives a remarkable insight into the life of climber as well as the hardships they face but it also gives an interesting insight into fame and its effect on someone’s personal life. Again Ruttledge’s expedition failed due to weather issues: the sacred mountain was proving difficult.
After several more failed attempts between 1938 and 1952, John Hunt led the historic British expedition that was to finally scale Everest, and on the 29th May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit. Hunt’s famous account The Ascent of Everest remains to this day a classic story of man against mountain.
James (later Jan) Morris, The Times correspondent, attached to the expedition broke the news, and the success caught the public imagination. On our shelf we have a copy of Coronation Everest signed by Edmund Hillary.
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A fine group of photographs which capture the Northern side of the Caucasus, from the Black Sea in the West to Dagestan in the East. Maurice de Dé...
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Rare limited edition. A fine set of the deluxe edition of a Himalayan classic, complete with all four volumes.Conway (1856–1937) developed a taste ...
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Deluxe edition bound in vellum - presentation copy. the rare vellum bound deluxe edition. The full account of the Duke of Abruzzi's expedition to K...
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Deluxe edition on japan paper. The very rare deluxe edition on Japan Paper, one of only 30 copies. Sinigaglia was the first great Italian climber i...
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Scarce. Moorcroft's narrative traces the journey of the author and Trebeck from Bareilly to Bokhara in the years 1819 to 1825. En route to Bokhara...
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Large paper copy - one of 100. One of the finest books on the Caucasus. Freshfield was a former President of the Alpine Club and an honorary secret...
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Scarce personal reminiscences of Conway's 1892 Karakoram expedition.Eckenstein (1859 – 1921), was a member of the expedition led by Sir Martin Con...
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'Jean François Albanis Beaumont, (1755–1812), engraver and landscape painter, may have been a son of, or related to, the Piedmontese artist Claudi...
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With dust-wrapper. Shipton was a natural choice for the Mount Everest expedition of 1933 on which he reached 27,900 feet, but the experience of tho...
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The account of a lengthy tour made by the geologist Bakewell (1767-1843), accompanied by his second wife. The work contains an early description i...
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Fine example of the first-hand account of the expedition to the peak of the mount Kazbek undertaken in November 1927 by a group of eleven mountain...
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This landmark of mountaineering literature is considered by many to be the most famous mountain travel book of the period, by the most famous moun...
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Inscribed by author. Herzog (1919-2012) was a French mountaineer who led this remarkable ascent of Annapurna, one of the highest mountains in the w...
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Inscribed copy. The standard biography of the great Alpine mountaineer, Saussure, by another outstanding mountaineer.Inscribed and dated by the aut...
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A fine example of this extremely beautiful and important work on the Swiss Alps and its Glaciers. It is one of the earliest of its kind to be illu...
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Signed by Edmund Hillary. The author James (later Jan) Morris was the 'anonymous' Times special correspondent who had joined the successful Everest...
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Whymper, a leading figure in Alpine mountaineering, narrates in this volume details of his many brilliant climbs including the tragic account of h...
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Join us as we journey through time to discover some of the rarest books in the world. The following texts have shown an extraordinary ability to survive, with some books having survived the ravages of flood and fire, and others counting only a single surviving copy.
The public perception of the East India Company, an organisation which was to become one of Britain's most notorious colonial ventures, was mediated by a collective of artists. Diplomatic wrangling, imperial posturing, trade and warfare became the subjects of a significant artistic movement, aimed at depicting and dissecting the Company’s involvement in the political and social life of the period.
The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor. Join us this Easter as we travel through the imaginary places and winding roads of children’s literature.
Welcome to TEFAF Maastricht: the fair that plays host to some of the most memorable treasures in the art world. With artworks that span over 7000 years, the event has an illustrious history, welcoming collectors and art loves alike for more than three decades.
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