F/F. 8vo. original brown boards in dustwrapper; pp. xiv, 306 (last blank), with illustrations + maps. A fine copy of the new edition, containing previously unpublished material. Flatsigned on half-title by the author's descendent, Christopher Norton, who oversaw the book's republication. [Neate N31: Norton took over the leadership of the 1924 expedition during which he climbed to a height of c. 28,100 ft without oxygen].

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Titel

The Fight for Everest 1924 New Edition, with a Foreword by Doug Scott

Verlag

Vertebrate Publishing, Sheffield

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1910240397

ISBN-13

9781910240397

Einband

Hard Cover

Auflage

New Edition.

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Schutzumschlag

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In 1924 a team that included Colonel E.F. Norton, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine arrived in the Himalaya. Could they make the first ascent of the highest mountain on Earth? Before they could find out, tragedy struck, and Mallory and Irvine vanished into the clouds. The Fight for Everest 1924 is the official record of the expedition.

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Born in Nottingham in 1941, Doug Scott began climbing in Derbyshire when he was thirteen and without any obvious plan in it was soon discovering the cliffs of Snowdonia, Scotland, the Alps and the Dolomites. He completed his first Alpine season at the age of eighteen. In 1965, aged twenty-three, he went on his first organised expedition, to the Tibesti Mountains of Chad. It was to be the first of many trips to the high mountains of the world. On 24 September 1975, he and his climbing partner Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest, via the formidable South-West Face, and they became national heroes. In total, Scott made forty-two expeditions to the high mountains of Asia, reaching the summits of forty peaks. With the exception of his ascent of Everest, he made all his climbs in lightweight or alpine style and without the use of supplementary oxygen. Scott was made a CBE in 1994. He was a president of the Alpine Club, and in 1999 he received the Royal Geographical Society Patron’s Gold Medal. In 2011 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Piolets d’Or, during the presentation of which his mountaineering style was described as ‘visionary’. In 1995 he founded Community Action Nepal (CAN), a UK-based registered charity whose aim is to help mountaineers to support the mountain people of Nepal. Up until his death in December 2020, Scott continued to climb, write and lecture, avidly supporting the work of CAN. He is the author of six books, including Up and About and The Ogre. Kangchenjunga is his final book.

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