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Brian Blessed Blessed Everest
London: Salamander, 1995. 160pp, illus. throughout in colour and black and white, 29cm.
Brian's 1996 attempt when he reached 8400m without oxygen.
Chris Bonington Everest - South West Face
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973. 352pp, 56 plates (some in colour), illus., folding map, 24cm.
The unsuccessful attempt in the autumn of 1972. At the end of the expedition Tony Tighe was killed.
Chris Bonington Everest the Hard Way
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. 239pp, 80 colour plates, illus., 26cm.
The successful first ascent of the South West Face in 1975, overshadowed by the deaths of Mick Burke and Mingma Nuru.
Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke Everest - The Unclimbed Ridge
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. 132pp, 64 colour plates, illus., 25cm.
An attempt to climb the North-East Ridge during which Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker were tragically lost.
Raymond Briggs (text by Showell Styles) First up Everest
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969. 40pp, illus. (some colour), 21cm by 21cm.
An account for children of the first ascent, illustrated by 'The Snowman' artist.
C.G.Bruce The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922
London: Arnold, 1923. xii, 339pp, 2 folding maps, 33 plates, 26cm.
With contributions by other members of the expedition. One of an important trio of accounts of the British Everest expeditions of the 1920s. See also C.K.Howard-Bury: 'Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921' and E.F.Norton: 'The Fight for Everest, 1924'.
Broughton Coburn Everest - Mountain without Mercy
National Geographic Society, 1997. 256pp, colour plates, maps, 31cm.
A spectacular portrait of Everest using IMAX camera imagery and incorporating a firsthand account of the tragedy of May 1996.
Leo Dickinson Ballooning over Everest
London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. 160pp, colour plates, map, 25cm.
The story of a flight over Everest in an open wicker basket and its filming.
Rene Dittert, Gabriel Chevalley, Raymond Lambert Forerunners to Everest
London: Allen and Unwin, 1954. 256pp, 25 plates, illus., maps, 22cm.
An account of the two Swiss expeditions to Everest in 1952 which paved the way for the successful British expedition the following year.
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Peter Habeler Everest - Impossible VictoryLondon: Arlington Books, 1979. 223pp, plus 23 colour plates and incl. many black and white photographs, map, 25cm.
Peter Habeler's account of his ascent of Everest with Reinhold Messner, without oxygen. Translated by David Heald.
Thomas F.Hornbein Everest - The West Ridge
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1965; (London: Allen and Unwin, 1966). 200pp, 84 colour plates, illus., maps, 35cm by 27cm (Exhibit-Format Series).
Tom Hornbein's personal account of his ascent of the West Ridge and descent of the South Ridge, with Willi Unsoeld, thus achieving the first traverse of Everest.
C.K.Howard-Bury Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921.
London: Arnold, 1922. xii, 356pp, 3 folding maps, 33 plates, 26cm. (A larger edition, numbered and limited to 200 copies, with fourteen extra plates, was also published.)
With contributions by other members of the expedition. One of an important trio of accounts of the British Everest expeditions of the 1920s. See also C.G.Bruce: 'The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922' and E.F.Norton: 'The Fight for Everest, 1924'.
John Hunt The Ascent of Everest
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. xx, 300pp, 56 plates incl. 8 in colour, 23cm.
The official account of the successful 1953 expedition.
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Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air
London: Macmillan, 1997. xxii, 293pp, 8 colour plates, illus., 24cm.
Superbly written but harrowing account of the tragic events on Everest in 1996.
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Roberto Mantovani Everest - The History of the Himalayan Giant
Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1997. 144pp, photographs (mostly in colour) on every page, illus., maps, 36cm.
A pictorial history of Everest expeditions. The book includes a list of all the successful ascents up to May 1996. Introduction by Kurt Diemberger.
Reinhold Messner Everest - Expedition to the Ultimate
London: Kaye and Ward, 1979. 254pp, 32 colour plates, many black and white illustrations, 24cm.
Reinhold Messner's account of his ascent of Everest with Peter Habeler, without oxygen. Translated by Audrey Salkeld.
W.H.Murray The Story of Everest, 1921-1952
London: Dent, 1953. ix, 193pp, 23 black and white plates, 14 maps, 22cm.
A history of the expeditions to Everest from the reconnaissance of 1921 to the Swiss expedition of 1952. The book closes with a reference to the preparations for the British expedition in the Spring of 1953.
E.F.Norton The Fight for Everest, 1924.
London: Arnold, 1925. xii, 372pp, folding map, 32 plates (incl. 8 in colour), 26cm.
With contributions by other members of the expedition. One of an important trio of accounts of the British Everest expeditions of the 1920s. See also C.G.Bruce: 'The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922' and C.K.Howard-Bury: 'Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921'.
Wilfrid Noyce and Richard Taylor Everest is Climbed
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1954. 31pp, illus., 18cm by 22cm.
A Puffin Picture Book.
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Hugh Ruttledge Everest 1933
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1934. xvi, 390pp, 59 plates, illus., 3 folding maps, 27 cm.
A major British expedition which almost reached the summit.
Hugh Ruttledge Everest: The Unfinished Adventure
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1937. xvi, 295pp, 63 plates, illus., 2 folding maps, 27 cm.
A British expedition cut short by an early monsoon.
Eric Shipton The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1952. 128pp, black and white photographs, maps, diagrams, 27cm.
Lorna Siggins Everest Calling
Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1994. 191pp, many plates mostly in colour, illus., 25.5cm.
The first ascent of Everest by an Irishman, Dawson Stelfox, in 1993. This achievement was also the first ascent by a Briton of the North Ridge.
Joe Tasker Everest the Cruel WayLondon: Eyre Methuen, 1981. (x), 166pp, plus 12 pages of black and white photographs, 22cm.
Joe tasker's attempt to climb the West Ridge of Everest, in winter, without oxygen.
H.W.Tilman Mount Everest 1938
Cambridge: University Press, 1948. x, 160pp, 36 plates, illus., 2 maps, 22.5cm.
The story of the 5th unsuccessful expedition; a book long delayed by the Second World War.
The Times Everest Colour Supplement 1953
The Times Publishing Company, 1953. unpag., 24pp, black and white and colour photographs, map, 38cm by 25cm.
James Ramsey Ullman Americans on Everest
London: Michael Joseph, 1964. xxiv, 429pp, 56 plates (some in colour), illus., map, 24.5cm.
The official account of the ascent led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, with contributions by other members of the expedition. A major achievement of this expedition was the first traverse of Everest when Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld ascended the West Ridge and descended the South Ridge. (See Thomas F.Hornbein, 'Everest - The West Ridge'.)
Walt Unsworth Everest
London: Allen Lane, 1981. xiv, 578pp, 17 colour plates, 55 black and white plates, illus., 5 maps, 24cm.
Comprehensive climbing history of Everest up to 1979.
Stephen Venables Everest - Kangshung Face
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1989. 236pp, 43 colour plates including 5 double-page spreads, many black and white photographs in the text, 9 maps, drawings and photo-diagrams, 25.5cm.
An ascent of the East or Kangshung Face. Stephen Venables became the first Briton to ascend Everest without oxygen.
John B. West Everest - The Testing Place
McGraw Hill, 1985. 187pp, 18 colour photographs, diagrams, 23.5cm.
The American Medical Research Expedition in 1981.
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