Description
The first edition of High Adventure, signed by Edmund Hillary and 14 other Everest mountaineers.
Octavo, 256pp. Blue cloth, tan cloth spine, title stamped in red and gilt on spine. Stated “first edition” on copyright page. Crease through front cover, wear along lower edge of boards, light soiling to spine. Complete with frontispiece portrait of Hillary, 31 photographic plates, and 10 maps. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price clipped, tissue repair to rear hinge, light sunning to spine, bright illustrations, a very good example. (Neate, 369)
This copy is signed by Edmund Hillary and 14 other Himalayan mountaineers.
High Adventure is the first published work by Sir Edmund Hillary, two years after Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to successfully summit Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. The book was published in 1955 by E.P. Dutton in New York and Hodder & Stoughton in London.
Signed by the following mountaineers:
- Edmund Hillary – first to reach the summit of Everest
- Peter Athans – 7 time Everest summiteer
- George Band – member of 1953 British expedition to Everest, summited Kangchenjunga in 1955
- Barry Blanchard – one of North America’s top alpinists
- Carlos P. Buhler – summited Everest and other 8000-meter peaks
- Aid Burgess – expeditions to Everest, K2 and others
- Dave Hahn – summited Everest 15 times
- Thomas Humar – solo ascent of Dhaulagiri, south face of Annapurna
- Charley Mace – climbed the Seven Summits, climbed K2 & three other 8000-meter peaks
- Glen Porzak – climbed Everest, Lohtse and the Seven Summits
- Gerry Roach – Everest summiteer in 1983 and the Seven Summits
- Nazir Sabir – climbed Everest and four of the five 8000-meter peaks in Pakistan (K2, etc)
- Ed Webster – first ascent of the Kangshung Face on Everest in 1988
- P.V. Scoturro – summited Everest 3 times
- Steve Swenson – climbed Everest, K2 and Nanga Parbat
- Simone Timor Moro – first winter ascent of Shishapangma, Makalu, Gasherbrum II, and Nanga Parbat. Summited Everest 4 times
