1962 TO THE UNKNOWN MOUNTAIN WILFRID NOYCE 1ST EDITION KARAKORAM HIMALAYA CLIMB

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TO THE UNKNOWN MOUNTAIN
1962; Wilfrid Noyce;
1st Edition;
London, Heinemann;
Full Rebound Leather;
Illustrated; 162
Pages; w5.7"xh8.7";
Rare!
ATTRIBUTES:
Beautiful full maroon leather cover design with a nice expressionist Mountain in gold to both sides, gold spine labeling, with a lovely photo frontispiece, with three maps, and a bunch of great photo illustrations, and a Wonderul Read;
One of a Kind Binding!
SUMMARY:
Ascent of Trivor. In the summer of 1960 five Englishmen and one American under the leadership of Noyce set out to climb an unknown peak, Trivor, in the Karakoram Himalaya. No photographs existed of the mountain face and even officials in Pakistan were unable to locate it, although the summit overlooked both China and Russia. The book contains one of Don Whillans' few written pieces as Appendix A,
Solo by Motor-Bicycle from Rawalpindi to Lancashire
.
Trivor is one of the high peaks of the Hispar Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. Its height is often given as 7,728 metres, but this elevation is not consistent with photographic evidence. There have been only two successful climbs of this peak; the first ascent was in 1960 by this British-American party.
Cuthbert Wilfrid Francis Noyce
(31 December 1917 – 24 July 1962) (usually known as
Wilfrid Noyce
(often misspelt as 'Wilfred'), some sources give third forename as
Frank
) was an
English
mountaineer
and
author
. He was a member of the
1953 British Expedition
that made the
first ascent
of
Mount Everest
.
CONDITION:
Condition is Very Good. Some wear to edges, boards darker in person, some blemishing to extreme page edges, pages/hinges/text block are very good!
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