First on Everest. The mystery of Mallory & Irvine

by Tom Holzel, Audrey Salkeld

$25 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986 . First American edition, 8vo, pp. x, 4 , 322; double-page map and 35 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth-backed paper-covered boards, and a fine, unclipped dust jacket which is lightly toned. Yakushi H393b: In 1924 Mallory and Irvine disappeared just below the summit of Everest. Did they reach the top thirty years before Hillary and Tenzing were proclaimed

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