Abode of snow. A history of Himalayan exploration and mountaineering

by Kenneth Mason

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: Dutton, 1955. First edition, American issue British sheets with a new title page ; 8vo, pp. xi, 1 , 372; very good copy in a very good jacket with wear at the edges. The first authoritative history of Himalayan exploration covering the period of the early Jesuit travelers to the first ascent by Hillary and Tenzing of Everest in 1953. Yakushi M214a: Very fine and most important work on the Himalayas, and Himalayan exploration and mountaineering, by

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