Description
The first edition of K2: Mountain of Mountains by Reinhold Messner and Alessandro Gogna, signed by the author and 28 fellow mountaineers.
Octavo, 175pp, [1]. Blue cloth, title stamped in silver on spine. Text originally in German. No additional printings noted. Solid text block. Dozens of color photographs from the author’s expedition to K2 and a thorough history of the summit. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, retail sticker on front flap, touch of shelf wear, a near fine example. (Neate, M89)
Signed on the half title by 29 mountaineers.
This work is signed by the following mountaineers:
- Reinhold Messner – 1st person to summit all 14 of the 8000 meter peaks
- Craig Anderson – 1978 American K2 expedition member
- Peter Athans – 7 time Everest summiteer
- Bob Bates – 1953 American K2 expedition leader
- George Bell – 1953 American K2 expedition member
- Chris Bonington – Nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest
- Carlos Buhler – summited Everest and 6 other 8000 meter peaks
- Aid Burgess – expeditions to Everest, K2 and others
- Greg Child – Australian-born rock climber, mountaineer, author and filmmaker. Summiteer of Everest and K2
- Bob Craig – 1953 American K2 expedition member
- Jim Curran – mountaineer and author of K2 – Triumph and Tragedy
- Kurt Diemberger – summited Everest, K2, and 6 other 8000-meter peaks
- Fred Dunham 1975 K2 expedition member
- Skip Edmonds -1978 American K2 expedition member
- Charlie Houston- 1953 American K2 expedition co-leader
- Dan Mazur – has summited Everest, K2 and 6 other 8000 peaks
- Dee Molenaar – 1953 American K2 expedition member
- Lou Reichard – 1978 American K2 expedition member and summiteer and Everest summiteer
- Rick Ridgeway – 1978 American K2 expedition member and summiteer
- Diane Roberts – 1978 American K2 expedition member
- John Roskelly – John Roskelly (78′ expedition and summiteer)
- Galen Rowell – climber and photographer
- Nazir Sabir – He has climbed Mount Everest and four of the five 8000 m peaks in Pakistan
- Steve Swenson – climbed Everest, K2 and Nanga Parbat
- Tony Streather – (53′ expedition)
- Fred Stanley – 1978 American K2 expedition member
- Pete Schoening – 1953 American K2 expedition member
- Jim Whittaker – 1st American to summit Everest and 1978 American K2 expedition leader
- Jim Wickwire – 1978 American K2 expedition member and summiteer
