SHIPTON ERIC — That Untravelled World

Hodder & StoughtonLondon. 1977. (ISBN: 0340216093) Hardcover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Biro. Book, "Eric Shipton the greatest of our explorer-mountaineers, began his illustrious climbing career in the Alps in the twenties at a time when the high Dauphine was still wild and rarely visited. He managed to continue climbing while earning a living as a farmer in Kenya, and in the early thirties made his first expeditions to the Himalayas in the company of the most distinguished climber of the period, Frank Smythe. " , Very Good/Good/Very Good in Prot. Wrap.