£ 125
Bates, Robert H.
FIVE MILES HIGH. The story of an attack on the second highest mountain in the world by the members of the first American Karakoram expedition.
Robert Hale.
1940
First edition.
The account of an expedition, which set the standard for American Himalayan mountaineering is one of the classics of American climbing literature. The UK edition, published a year after the first US edition, has fewer plates but more illustrations overall.
Rebound in faded orange cloth with clear gilt lettering. 319pp with 30 illustrations, a fold-out temperature chart. Maps on endpapers missing as a consequence of rebinding. No inscriptions. Text block quite tight and square. Booklovers library label removed from rear endpaper and likely similar label has been removed from lower front cloth. No other markings.
     
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