"The Conquest Of Everest" 1954 HUNT, Sir John
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HUNT, Sir John
Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt (22 June 1910 – 7 November 1998) was a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest.
Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh
[300] pp.
E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.
1954
8 3/4" x 6"
VG/ VG
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The original account of the conquest of Everest, with contributions by John Hunt and Edmund Hillary. When Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest on 29 May 1953, they caught the world's imagination in a way subsequently unmatched until humans walked on the Moon. Brigadier Sir John Hunt C.B.E., D.S.O led the 1953 British expedition that enabled Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to conquer Mount Everest.