OUR EVEREST ADVENTURE, SIGNED BY EDMUND HILLARY, AND THIRTEEN OTHER MOUNTAINEERS

HUNT, John. Our Everest Adventure. Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1954. Square octavo, original pictorial cloth, original dust jacket. $2500.

First edition of this account of the 1953 Everest expedition, signed by Edmund Hillary and thirteen other noted mountaineers on the title page.

The 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest was the eighth in 30 years to attempt Everest. On May 29th, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and guide Tenzing Norgay at last stood at the summit; it was a culminating moment in mountaineering history, and one of the great achievements of human stamina and will. Our Everest Adventure was written by Sir John Hunt, the leader of the expedition, who described it as "primarily a pictorial record, designed to bring to life the story as I attempted to describe it in The Ascent of Everest. The words are the same as those I wrote in that book; it is, in fact, a shorter version brought to life by photographs" (from the Foreword). In addition to Hillary, this copy is signed by Peter Athans (7-time Everest summitter), Barry Blanchard, Carlos P. Buhler (summited Everest and other 8000-k peaks), Aid Burgess, Dave Hahn (15-time Everest summitter), Thomas Humar (solo ascent of Dhaulagiri, the southern face of Annapurna), Charley Mace (climbed the Seven Summits, K2 and three other 8000k peaks), Gerry Roach (Everest summitter, in addition to the Seven Summits), Nazir Sabir (summited Everest and four of the five 8000k peaks in Pakistan), Ed Webster (first to ascend the Kangshung face on Everest), P.V. Scoturro (3-time Everest summitter), Steve Swensen (summitted Everest, K2 and Nanga Parbat) and Simone Timor Moro (4-time Everest Summitter and the first winter ascents of Shishapangma, Makalu, Gasherbrum II and Nanga Parbat). Neate 395.

A few instances of foxing to book, dust jacket with light toning, wear along creases and spine ends. A very good copy.