The Pilots' Book of Everest ... With a Preface by Lt.-Col. The Rt. The Lord Tweedsmuir.
Book Description
First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 209; photo. illusts. inc. 3 folding, 3 maps inc. one folding; prize bookplate to flyleaf, else very good in the original cloth, in original d.-w. which is rather worn with loss to extrems.
Dealer Notes
Neate C86; Yakushi C304; S & B C86; not in Perret. In 1933, the Houston-Mount Everest expedition achieved the first flight over the mountain. The present work offers the pilots' own account of the expedition, thereby supplementing the official account given in First Over Everest (1933).
Author
Clydesdale, The Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale & D.F. M'Intyre.
Date
1936
Binding
Original cloth in d.-w.
Publisher
William Hodge & Company, Limited
Condition
See description
Pages
xvi, 209
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