Everest 1933

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934.

Second reprint, same year as the first edition. Large octavo. pp [xiv] + 390. 59 photographic plates (including the frontispiece with tissue-guard), three diagrams and four maps (three of which are folding) including the large one inside the back cover, 'Mount Everest and the Group of Chomo Lungma'. All maps and plates in excellent, clean condition. Head of spine slightly rolled; few spots of foxing to the top edge. A near fine copy. The story of the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition under the leadership of Hugh Ruttledge, with a foreword by Francis Younghusband. Like the previous attempts in 1922 and 1924, the 1933 expedition also floundered due partly to Ruttledge's uninspiring leadership. However they achieved a height of 28000 feet, just 2,000 form the summit. In his review of the book, Sir Geoffrey Corbett, a member of the Everest committee, was full of praise claiming "There are passages as fine as anything in Alpine literature".