Author: Bonington, Chris
Title: Everest The Hard Way
Description: Book Club Associates, 1976, book club edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. 239pp, decorated endpapers, many b/w & colour illustrations from photographs, index, dustjacket rubbed at the edges, top egde of the text block foxed. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ Bonington led the 1975 expedition to overcome the South West face of Everest, which had defeated all who had tried to climb it before, including Bonington himself. Experts gave him & his team a 50/50 chance of sucess this time.

Keywords: everest, mountains, climbing, mountaineering, himalayas