First edition. Small 4to. pp. [96]; numerous full-page colour photo. illusts.; good in the original cloth, gilt, in d.-w., which is faded on spine and chipped to extremities. Loosely inserted is a folded sheet, with letterhead of the Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, 6 Albuquerque Road, New Delhi, with the original signatures of the Everest 1953 team: Hunt, Gregory, Stobart, Hillary, Westmacott, Band, James Morris, Noyce, Lowe, Ward, Tenzing, Pugh, Wylie and Evans (a later signature; Bourdillon did not sign).