First edition. Frontispiece portrait, 9 photographic plates (both sides), & 3 maps to text. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, dustjacket worn with small chips. xvi, 294pp. New York, G.P. Putnam’s sons, 1955.
A rare, signed copy of Tenzing Norgay’s autobiography - published just two years after he and Edmund Hilary were the first to climb Mount Everest.
Tipped into the rear of the book is an envelope from the Himalayan Institute containing a signed Christmas card from Tenzing dated 11 Jan 1977.
Neate, U05.
