Climbing

China’s Elusive Summit, numerous illustrations from b&w and colour photos, maps, appendices, bibliography & index, 224 pp, inscription by the author on front half-title (see picture below), black cloth in d/w, slight spotting to closed top edge of pages, otherwise in very good condition, Hodder & Stoughton 1982

24.3 x 16.7 cm, 970g, ISBN 0 34026 514 0

An unclimbed 7,719-metre peak between the Pamirs and the Kun-lun.  The Mount Everest Foundation managed to obtain Chinese approval by stressing the scientific and medical aspects of the expedition.

See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.