GILLMAN, Peter [Ed]
Everest from Reconnaissance to Summit: 1921 to 1953
Everest from Reconnaissance to Summit: 1921 to 1953
London: The Folio Society, 2021.
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Everest, From Reconnaissance to Summit, 1921 to 1953. London: The Folio Society, 2021. Second printing, 2021.
236 × 277 × 25–52 mm. 2 vols (see below). Type: Walbaum with Mallory for display. Printed and bound by L.E.G.O. in full printed and blocked cloth. Silver top edge; pale blue endleaves. Pale blue slip case with photograph inset. All but one photograph is sourced from the Royal Geographical Society. Marks the 100th anniversary of the earliest British reconnaissance, and four other key expeditions. The two volumes are as follows:
[1] Everest, From Reconnaissance to Summit, 1921 to 1953, A Photographic History, edited by Peter Gillman. Pp. [i–viii], [1] 2–522 [523–528]. Nearly every photograph, that total over 250, is awarded its own page, accompanied by a short narrative opposite. Includes [2] fold-outs (between pp. 94–[95] and 414–[415]).
[2] Everest, From Reconnaissance to Summit, 1921 to 1953, An Eyewitness History, edited by Peter Gillman, introduced by Jan Morris and Wade Davis. Pp. [i–iv] v–xxi [xxii–xxiv], [1–4] 5–183 [184]. Maps by Kevin Freeborn are on pages [xxii–xxiii].
A new set, as received from the publisher, in Folio Society's Sylvicta wrapping paper; fine.
About the set (from the Folio Society website)
Commissioned exclusively for The Folio Society and produced in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society, Everest is the ultimate account of five key expeditions to the summit of the world, using spectacular photography and reportage from the men who went there. Marking the 100th anniversary of the earliest British reconnaissance in 1921, it also covers the first attempt on the summit in 1922 and the tragic 1924 expedition that claimed the lives of Mallory and Irvine. It shows how the mountain proved unconquerable by a new generation of climbers in 1933, before the triumphant ascent of Hillary and Tenzing in 1953.
The words and pictures in this two-volume edition were selected by the award-winning mountaineering writer Peter Gillman. The first volume, A Photographic History, collects 268 of the most remarkable mountain photographs ever taken, including breathtaking panoramas, steep gorges, glaciers, ice-fields, pinnacles and close-ups of the ascents. The men’s testimony makes up the second volume, An Eyewitness History, in articles and dispatches, memoirs, official reports and private letters, each accompanied by a commentary by Gillman. Everest is introduced by Wade Davis – an authority on the early expeditions, who puts them in their historical context of the ‘Great Game’ played out between the British and Russian empires and, in the next century, the First World War. The preface is from Jan Morris, last surviving member of the 1953 expedition until her death in 2020.
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