Climbing high. A woman's account of surviving the Everest tragedy

by Lene Gammelgaard

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Seattle : Seal Press, 1999 . First edition in English, 8vo, pp. xvi, 211, 5 ; map and 29 illustrations from photos on rectos and versos of 8 plates; remainder mark on bottom edge, else a fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Gammelgaard became the first Scandinavian woman to summit Everest, but it came at a heavy cost. Eight members on two separate expeditions lost their lives that day in a fierce storm during their descent. This is the same storm Jon

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