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£ 18 CLICK FOR PICTURE Baughman, T.H. BEFORE THE HEROES CAME: Antarctica in the 1890s. University of Nebraska Press. 1994 First edition. Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted earlier it was not until Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being had set foot on the Antarctic continent. Borchgrevink, snubbed by the British establishment, had stolen a march on several planned competing expeditions from Germany and Scandinavia. Borchgrevink returned to Antarctica in 1899 with a party that was the first to winter over on the continent and there survival was proof that with adequate supplies, the Antarctic winter was survivable. Borchgrevink galvanized the British geographical authorities, who had come to consider polar exploration their exclusive province. Led by Sir Clements Markham the RGS pushed forward with its plans, and a tragic competition to be the first to reach the South Pole was set in motion between the British and the Scandinavians. 160pp with two plates & four maps. No inscriptions. Fine in fine complete and unclipped dustwrapper. £ 15 CLICK FOR PICTURE Messner, Reinhold. ANNAPURNA: 50 Years of Expeditions in the Death Zone. The Mountaineers. 2000 First US edition. Fine in fine complete and unclipped dustwrapper. 173pp with many b/w and colour photographs. No inscriptions or other blemishes. £ 12 CLICK FOR PICTURE Clark, R.W. THE DAY THE ROPE BROKE. The Story of a Great Victorian Tragedy. Secker & Warberg. 1965 First edition. The tragic story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. 221pp with 4 plates and map. Near fine in vg complete and unclipped dustwrapper with minor creases to dustwrapper extremities. No inscriptions. £ 40 CLICK FOR PICTURE Haston, Dougal. CALCULATED RISK. Diadem. 1979 First edition. A semi-autobiographical mountaineering-based novel written by one of the UK's greatest climbers who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in the Alps in 1977. Dougal Haston was the first Briton to climb the North Face of the Eiger in 1966 and with Doug Scott made the first ascent of the South-West face of Mount Everest in 1975. 190pp. Inscription on front endpaper. Clean bright copy Overall, near fine in fine complete and unclipped dustwrapper. £ 10 CLICK FOR PICTURE Haston, Dougal. CALCULATED RISK. Diadem. 1979 First edition. A semi-autobiographical mountaineering-based novel written by one of the UK's greatest climbers who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in the Alps in 1977. Dougal Haston was the first Briton to climb the North Face of the Eiger in 1966 and with Doug Scott made the first ascent of the South-West face of Mount Everest in 1975. 190pp. Ex-library copy. Front endpaper removed. The dustwrapper has been placed in adhesive plastic sleeve. No library markings to dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Overall, in clean condition. £ 30 CLICK FOR PICTURE Hillary, Edmund. HIGH ADVENTURE. Hodder & Stoughton. 1955 First edition. Hillary's climbing autobiography with Everest 1953 as its climax. 224pp with a coloured frontispiece, 70 plates and 32 line illustrations. No inscriptions. Very good in very good unclipped dustwrapper, which is lightly frayed with minor loss at top and foot of spine. £ 55 CLICK FOR PICTURE Huntford, Roland. SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN. Hodder & Stoughton. 1979 First edition. Comprehensive account of the competing Antarctic expeditions of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen. 666pp with many b/w illus, maps & index. No inscriptions. Some light creases to dustwrapper extremities, especially along top edge. The dustwrapper is now protected in loose plastic sleeve. Overall, vg+ in very good price-clipped dustwrapper. £ 12 CLICK FOR PICTURE Murray, W.H. THE SCOTTISH HIMALAYAN EXPEDITION. Dent. 1951 First edition. An account of a small private four man expedition to the Garhwal Himalaya. 232pp, including 4pp of colour plates & 32pp of b/w photographs and 11 maps & diagrams by Robert Anderson. A very good hardback copy bound in strong brown library cloth with clear gilt spine lettering. No inscriptions. £ 12 CLICK FOR PICTURE (Various) WORLD CLIMBING. Dark Peak. 1980 First edition. Compiled from the 'INFO' pages of Mountain Magazine issues 1-64. 368 pages with illustrations and maps. No inscriptions. Very good+ contents / boards. No dustwrapper was issued. £ 15 CLICK FOR PICTURE Gurney, Alan. THE RACE TO THE WHITE CONTINENT: VOYAGES TO THE ANTARCTICA 1699-1839. Norton. 2000 First US edition. 320 pages with 24 photographs and 11 maps. No inscriptions. Fine in fine complete and unclipped dustwrapper. £ 20 CLICK FOR PICTURE Gurney, Alan. BELOW THE CONVERGENCE:VOYAGES TOWARD ANTARCTICA 1699-1839. Norton. 1997 First US edition. A well written book that tells the story of British, American and Russian expeditions to Antarctica. 315 pages with photographs and maps. No inscriptions. Near fine in fine complete and unclipped dustwrapper. £ 20 CLICK FOR PICTURE Smythe, Frank S. THE VALLEY OF FLOWERS. Hodder and Stoughton. 1947 Uniform edition. After climbing Kamet, Smythe explored in the Garwhal Himalaya. 318pp with 16 illus and two maps. Missing front endpaper. No inscriptions. Overall, very good in very good complete and unclipped dustwrapper. £ 10 Wilson, Andrew. THE ABODE OF SNOW. OBSERVATIONS ON A JOURNEY FROM CHINESE TIBET TO THE INDIAN CAUCASUS, THROUGH THE UPPER VALLEYS OF THE HIMALAYA. Moyer Bell. 1993 Facsimile paperback reprint of the first edition of 1875. Wilson in 1873 traversed the peaks of Tibet with only an Indian butler and an Afghan cook. He climbed many new peaks and travelled widely from Bombay to Nepal and from the Indus to the Khyber Pass. 396pp with illus and maps. Fine condition. No inscriptions. £ 45 CLICK FOR PICTURE Simpson, Joe. STORMS OF SILENCE. Jonathan Cape. 1996 First edition. First impression. Signed by author directly onto title page. No other inscriptions or markings. 304pp with 44 b/w & 13 colour illustrations. Fine in fine complete and unclipped dustwrapper. £ 12 Maclennan, Hugh Dan. THE BEN RACE – The Supreme Test of Athletic Fitness. Ben Nevis Race Association. 1994 First edition. The definitive work on ‘The Ben Race’, the race to the top of Britain’s highest Mountain on the first Saturday in September each year. Large size paperback. 218pp with many illus. No inscriptions. Near fine condition. £ 20 CLICK FOR PICTURE Steele, Peter. ERIC SHIPTON: Everest and Beyond. Constable. 1998 First edition. Highly rated biography and winner of the Boardman-Tasker prize for mountain literature. 290pp with many b/w photographs. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary. Inscription on front endpaper. Near fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. £ 35 CLICK FOR PICTURE Bonington, Chris. KONGUR. China’s Elusive Summit. Hodder & Stoughton. 1982 First edition. The record of a four man expedition (Chris Bonington, Alan Rouse, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker) who completed the first ascent of the highest peak in western China. 224 pp with 58 colour illustrations. Signed by Chris Bonington on title page. No other inscriptions. Fine in fine unclipped dustwrapper. £ 35 CLICK FOR PICTURE Jones, Owen Glynne. ROCK-CLIMBING IN THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT. With a memoir and portrait of the author and an appendix by George and Ashley Abraham. Morton. 1973 Facsimile edition. An excellent facsimile reprint of the second edition. The first part of a classic trilogy completed by the Abraham brothers. Jones was an English schoolmaster and leading rock-climber, killed on the Dent Blanche. Good facsimile of the second edition (Neate, J35). 322pp with portrait frontispiece, 31 plates and 9 route diagrams. Fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper, which has very minor wear to top spine edge. No inscriptions or other blemishes. £ 25 CLICK FOR PICTURE Collister, Peter. BHUTAN AND THE BRITISH. Serindia Publications. 1987 First edition. An historic record of two centuries of Anglo-Bhutanese relations, focusing on the experiences of various official missions. Illustrated with a series of photographs by John Claude White and a selection of drawings by Julian Burton. 210pp with notes and index, plus illustrated with 38 photographs from 1905-07. No inscriptions or other blemishes. Fine in fine complete and unclipped dustwrapper. £ 30 CLICK FOR PICTURE Humble, Roy. THE VOICE OF THE HILLS. The Story of Ben Humble MBE. The Pentland Press. 1995 First edition. An interesting biography by Ben Humble’s nephew on this important climber and mountain rescuer. 232pp with illus and maps. No inscriptions or other blemishes. Fine in fine complete and unclipped dustwrapper.