Search Results: Titles starting with K from Glacier Books

Smithmark, 1995. 1995 US First Edition. hardcover. 144pp, Fine in VG+ dw.. Documentation of the worlds second highest mountain - K2. Beautiful colour photographs and descriptive text.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Diadem Books, 1992. 1992 First Edition. hardcover. 224pp, map endpapers, Fine in Fine dw. The full story of the ill-fated American Wiessner Expedition.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Carreg, 2006. 2006 First Edition, 2nd impression. hardcover. 127pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper, signed by Nazir Sabir, the first Pakastani climber to summit K2.. A new important account of the successful summit bid on K2 in 1954, one which resulted in accusations and court proceedings from Walter Bonatti. The truth is told.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Carreg, 2006. 2006 First Edition, 2nd impression. hardcover. 127pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.. A new important account of the successful summit bid on K2 in 1954, one which resulted in accusations and court proceedings from Walter Bonatti. The truth is told.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Carreg, 2006. 2006 First Edition, 2nd impression. hardcover. 127pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.. A new important account of the successful summit bid on K2 in 1954, one which resulted in accusations and court proceedings from Walter Bonatti. The truth is told.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Carreg, 2006. 2006 First Edition, 2nd impression. hardcover. 127pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.. A new important account of the successful summit bid on K2 in 1954, one which resulted in accusations and court proceedings from Walter Bonatti. The truth is told.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. 1995 First Edition. hardcover. 271pp, VG+ in VG+ dw, signed dedication on half title by Jim Curran, also signed by Tony Streather and Nakashita.. History of climbing on K2.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

The Mountaineers, 1987. 1987 First Edition US. hardcover. 219pp, Fine in VG+ dw. During the summer of 1986 nine expeditions converged on K2, twenty seven climbers reached the summit, but thirteen people also died on the mountain, including the two British climbers Julie Tullis and Al Rouse.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Explo, 1997. 1997 First Edition. paperback. 115pp, paperback, Fine. Very Scarce. . Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

paperback. image size 49.5cm x 30.5cm, overall size 59cm x 42cm, poster print signed by Doug Scott.. . Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Victor Gollancz, 1932. 1932 First Edition. hardcover. xvi, 420pp, original black cloth, a few light spots of foxing to prelims, internally very clean, VG+ in scarce VG dw with a little edge wear and light soiling to rear.. This first ascent of Kamet was a fine achievement, following a series of attempts dating back to 1855.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hodder & Stougfhton, 1947. 1947 reprint, Uniform Edition. hardcover. 372pp, map endpaper to front, owner's signature, VG in Good+ dw. This first ascent of Kamet was a fine achievement following a series of attempts dating back to 1855.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

East-West Publications, 1978. 1978 First Edition. hardcover. 156pp, pictorial endpapers, VG in VG- dw with small tears repaired. Ascent of Kanchenjunga by the most difficult side as told by the expedition leader.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Elek Books, 1955. 1955 First Edition. hardcover. 224pp, speckling to spine, light foxing to foreedges, VG- in VG dw, signed by Doug Scott.. Reconnaissance expedition in 1954 that found the route for the first ascent in 1955.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Victor Gollancz, 1930. 1930 First Edition. hardcover. 464pp, private bookplate, foxing to endpapers, light bumping to top and bottom of spine, VG. Unsuccessful 1930 international expedition.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1956. 1956 First Edition. hardcover. 187pp, original black decorative boards, spine faded, owner's signature and date, VG- in colour photocopy of original dw.. Account of the first ascent by the expedition leader. George Band & Joe Brown summited, followed the next day by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Vertebrate Publishing, 2021. 2021 First Edition, First Printing. hardcover. ix, 273pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper.. Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world and a notoriously difficult and dangerous mountain to climb. First climbed from the west in 1955 by a British team comprising Joe Brown, George Band, Tony Streather and Norman Hardie, it waited over twenty years for a second ascent. The third ascent, from the north, was made in 1979 by a four-man team including the visionary British alpinist Doug Scott. Completed before his death in 2020, and edited by Catherine Moorehead, Kangchenjunga is Doug Scott’s final book. Scott explores the mountain and its varied people, the mountain sits on the border between Nepal and Sikkim in north-east India, before going on to look at Western approaches and early climbing attempts on the mountain. Kangchenjunga was in fact long believed to be the highest mountain in the world, until in the nineteenth century it was demonstrated that Peak… Read More

Victor Gollancz, 1930. 1930 First Edition. hardcover. 464pp, small inscription, slight sunning to spine and top of front board, light foreedge foxing, slight slant to spine, VG- in colour photocopy of original dw.. Unsuccessful 1930 international expedition.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

School of Art, University of Wales, 2005. 2005 First Edition. paperback. 127pp, large format softback, VG.. A selection of images and literature extracts relating to Kangchenjunga, foreword by George Band.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

paperback. overall print size 70.5cm x 49.5cm, image size 59.5cm x 29.5cm, mounted in black wooden frame, signed by First Ascenters Joe Brown and George Band, and Second Ascenters Tony Streather and Norman Hardie, and Doug Scott who took the photograph.. Photograph by Doug Scott.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.