DENMAN, EARL — Alone to Everest

New York, NY: Coward-Mccann, 1954. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations and Photographs; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. There is some lightish bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's number at the top edge of the front endpaper. The dust jacket is generally clean but has spots of bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners, and has a couple of small edge tears. The front cover has a crease / wrinkle to the top edge, and a small spot of rubbing to the front flap joint. "His (Denman's) illegal attempt was very different from the large-scale efforts by British mountaineers around the same time. He had little experience, having only climbed the smaller Virunga Mountains in East Africa before this expedition. He did not have much money, equipment, or fuel, and entered Tibet without permission. In Darjeeling he happened to pass a shop window in which was displayed some photographs of snow-capped mountains and noticed that the name of the shop's proprietor was familiar to him from Everest books he had read, in so doing he had stumbled upon a way of meeting Karma Paul who had provided support for six major expeditions which had travelled to Tibetan side of Everest. Because of the experience with Maurice Wilson, an earlier solo traveller to Everest, Karma Paul was unwilling to help Denman but he did put him in touch with the two sherpas who were willing to accompany him. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .