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On top of the world : an illustrated history of mountaineering and mountaineers

Title
On top of the world : an illustrated history of mountaineering and mountaineers / by Showell Styles ; with an introduction by Fosco Maraini.
Author
Styles, Showell, 1908-2005.
Publication
New York : Macmillan, [1967]

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Additional Authors
Maraini, Fosco.
Description
xx, 278 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, 32 color plates, portraits; 26 cm
Subject
  • Mountaineering > History
  • Mountaineering
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Mont Blanc and the golden age -- The Schoolmarm from Providence -- Mount Cook -- To the highest peaks -- The conquest of Mt. McKinley -- New routes and north faces -- The secret goddess -- The siege of Nanga Parbat -- Everest -- The second highest -- The five treasures of the snow -- The new golden age.
LCCN
67016944
OCLC
  • ocm02674810
  • 2674810
  • SCSB-809057
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library