An account of a successful British expedition led by Hunt in 1953. He subsequently became the "father figure" of post-war British mountaineering and was president of the Alpine Club (1956-8).

This particular volume was a special presentation copy given to Leslie Gamage ( chairman and managing director of the General Electric Company). The General Electric Company often collaborated with the Royal Geographical society providing specialised electrical equipment for mountaineers. Leslie Gamage was also the son of the founder of Gamages department store which ran from the 1870's -1970's. Gamages supplied Mallory in the 1920s with some of his equipment for the ill-fated 1924 expedition.

The presentation note reads as follows:
Presented with all good wishes to Leslie Gamage,. In appreciation of his resource, wit, & good humour, and above all. of his comradeship by his fellow members on completion of his extended term of office as First President of the Electrical Industries Club, Tuesday 2nd April, 1957.

First edition. 8vo.(23 x 16 cm), colour photographic frontispiece and 55 other photographic plates including 7 in colour, 3 maps and several other illustrations in the text, ornamental presentation label to Leslie Gamage pasted on front free preliminary page, book label in green morocco on front paste down, marbled endpapers; bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (binder's name stamped on endpapers" in contemporary green half morocco gilt, cloth boards, spine gilt lettered and decorated in compartments; a very good copy; xx, 299pp

Neate H135; Yakushi H269a.