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Everest - Jackdaw No. 128 - (plus May 2003 National Geographic Mag.featuring Sir Edmund Hillary) (plus "Everest 50" full size illustrated Map with drawings.
Published by Jackdaw Pub / Grossman Pub / Clarke Irwin & Co, Great Britain
ISBN 10: 0670300330ISBN 13: 9780670300334
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Ephemera. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. ----- # 012958 - The scan you see is the book & Ephemera you get. Portfolio containing ten (10) facsimiles of historic documents placed in folded illustrated sheet (24" by 13") (inches) all ten documents are present and accounted for & in Near Fine condition with portfolio having a 1/4" (inche) closed reparied tear. "This Jackdaw sets out to recappture the excitement of the 1953 success through maps, photographs, & pages from Hunt's diary. It also tells the story of earlier & later attempts, illustrates the likf of the Sherpas who have provided guides & bearers for many attempts at climbing Everest, shows some of the changes in equipment since the 1953 expediltion & explores the controversail issue of the Abominable Snowman." Contents include: 1. A passport issued by the consent of the Dalai Lama, 1921, permitting an expedition to visit Everest. 2. Up to '53 - a picture of early attempts to climb Everest. 3. A note sent from Mallory to Captain Noel in 1924 - this was the last letter he wrote before his disappearance/ 4. A map of Everest, showing the route taken to the summit by the 1953 expedlition. 5. 1953 - an illustrated broadsheet. 6. Pages from John Hunt's diary. 7. A picture sheet of Sherpa life. 8 Then and Now - techniques used in mountaineering. 9. A list of the equipment used for the 1975 British Everest expedition. 10. The Yeti - the evidence for and against. This all comes in a plastic see through case. Along with the Jackdae ia an original copy of the May 2003 National Geographic Mag. featuring Sir Edund Hillary's "Life and Death on Everest", also included is a 31" by 20" (inches) folded and two sided fully illustrated map & drawings of "Everest 50". Check out the scans. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
