To kiss high heaven. Nanda Devi

by - Languepin, ean, aques

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: William Kimber, 1956. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. 199, 9 ; frontispiece and 6 pages of illustrations, map endpapers; full blue cloth, remainder mark on lower edge; a touch of sunning to spine ends and abrasion on endpaper, else fine in a good, toned and chipped dust jacket. In May 1951, a party of eight young French mountaineers left Paris by air for Delhi. Their intention was to climb Nanda Devi, the fifth highest mountain in the world. Six

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