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NOYCE, Wilfrid

South Col

South Col

One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953.

Stock Code 117672

Heinemann, London, 1954

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A Scholar and a Poet on Everest.. Noyce's personal, insightful account of the 1953 Mount Everest expedition. Wilfrid Noyce was "in that great tradition of British mountaineers, being a scholar and a poet as well as an outstanding climber". This is one of the best accounts of the successful Everest expedition.

First edition. 8vo, (22 x 15 cm), with a foreword by Sir John Hunt, with 4 colour photographic plates (including a frontispiece), 48 plates of black and white photographic illustrations (some with more than one subject), 5 maps, several illustrations in the text, decorated endpapers; publisher's navy cloth gilt with original pictorial dust jacket; overall a very good copy.

Neate N40; Yakushi N71a.

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