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RUTTLEDGE, Hugh.
Everest 1933.
Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur.
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, London, 1934
Stock code: 72672
Price: £425 Currency Conversion
First edition of Ruttledge's account of the 1933 British attempt to climb Mount Everest, which he led. Nine years had passed since the last expedition, on which Mallory and Irvine had disappeared. Ruttledge put together a highly talented group, but the attempt to establish Camp V on a rare fair day (20 May) was a crucial failure. In the ensuing acrimony two vital days were lost and the expedition missed its chance of improving significantly on the height gained by the expedition of 1924. Ruttledge was to make a second attempt in 1936, which was better-spirited but defeated by an exceptionally early monsoon.
Crown octavo. Original blue cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the striking pictorial dust jacket. With fifty photographic illustrations, three diagrams in the text, and four maps, three of which are fold out. Jacket a little toned and rubbed, short splits at the head of the spine, but no loss, foxing to the fore-edge with minimal encroachment to the margins, a very good copy. Contemporary collector's bookplate of Percy Livingstone Dickson.
