TENZING NORGAY. After Everest. An Autobiography. London, George Allen & Unwin, [1977].
8vo. Original boards, in illustrated dust-wrapper (price-clipped); pp. 184; colour and black and white plates; a very clean and fresh copy.
First edition, signed twice by the author, once on front free endpaper and once on title-page with date. Tenzing's Mount Everest career was probably the longest ever. He had been a porter on three British attempts in the 1930s, participatewd in two Swiss Everest expeditions in 1952, before finding success with the British 1953 expedition led by John Hunt. He remained actively involved in high Himalayas exploration and tourism up to the late 1970s.
Neate T18; Yakushi T69a; Perret 4221; S & B T07.
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