Description: Two mountaineering books from the mid 20th century. First person accounts of mountain climbing with photos. KINGDOM OF ADVENTURE: EVEREST A chronicle of man’s assault on the earth’s highest mountain narrated by the participants and with an accompanying text by James Ramsey Ullman. Published 1947, First Edition by William Sloane Associates Clipped and worn dust jacket. Black cloth hard covers with gold spine lettering. 8 1/2 x 6” 411 pages, illustrated. Covers bright, light wear. Book seller receipt tucked in. Goodspeed’s - Boston. Pages neatly kept. ‘The book is the heroic chronicle of the assaults that climbers have made against the ultimate summit.’ from jacket flap. K2: THE SAVAGE MOUNTAIN By CHARLES HOUSTON & ROBERT BATES Published 1955 by Collins, London Blue cloth hard covers with gold stamped spine lettering; 8 3/4 x 6”. 192 pages, illustrated. Spine sun faded, covers otherwise sturdy with minor wear. Pages toning a bit, minor handling wear. Neatly kept book. “Charles Snead Houston[note 1] (August 24, 1913 – September 27, 2009) was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator. He made two important and celebrated attempts to climb the mountain K2 in the Karakoram Range… In 1938, he was the leader of the first American Karakoram expedition to K2. Although he did not reach the summit, his party mapped a route to the top that was later used by the Italian team that first summited the mountain in 1954… He attempted K2 again in 1953 (see Third American Karakoram Expedition). A member of the team, Art Gilkey, became ill (probably with thrombophlebitis) as they approached the summit. The team reversed direction and tried to carry Gilkey down. However, he was lost in a disastrous cascade of events precipitated by a fall where upon multiple ropes became entangled, resulting in most of the team sliding out of control roped together down the mountain. When the last roped man, Pete Schoening, was about to be plucked off by the accelerating climbers, he was remarkably able to arrest the fall of all six climbers using an ice axe belay. "The Belay" was one of the most famous events in mountaineering history. After the 1953 K2 expedition, Houston (then age 40) never participated on any further technical climbs.” Wikipedia Thanks. I expect payment within seven days and will pack securely and mail promptly.
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