Lionel Terray, Michel Herzog, Sir John Hunt - Les Conquérants de l'Inutile, Annapurna Premier 8000, Victoire sur l'Everest - 1952-1961

Lot of three mountaineering works - Terray (EO), Herzog, Sir John Hunt (EOFr)

Three testimonies from climbers involved in the great Himalayan expeditions, around Annapurna and Everest. An interesting lot for mountain, exploration, and early edition enthusiasts.

Lionel Terray — The Conquerors of the Useless. From the Alps to Annapurna - Paris, Gallimard, 1961 — original edition.

Grand mountaineering tale by Lionel Terray, illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs. A striking memoir of his ascents in the Alps and in the Himalaya, up to Annapurna.
Condition: copy in used condition, with a very worn and heavily detached cover. Pages yellowed with time. Overall still of interest for reading or to complete a collection devoted to mountaineering.

Victory over Everest — General Sir John Hunt - original French edition

Account of the British expedition that reached the summit of Everest in 1953, told by its leader, General Sir John Hunt, with the collaboration of Sir Edmund Hillary and the other expedition members. This French edition, translated by Bernard Pierre, is illustrated with photographs and drawings.

A fascinating testimony on one of the great adventures of mountaineering, published by Amiot-Dumont in the “Bibliothèque de l’alpinisme” collection.

Maurice Herzog — Annapurna, first 8,000 meters - 1952 edition (the original being 1951)

Paris and Grenoble, Arthaud, collection “Sempervivum”, no. 16. Foreword by Lucien Devies. Account of the French expedition of 1950, illustrated with photographs, sketches and color maps prepared from measurements by Marcel Ichac.

The folding map is visible in the photos.

Lot dimensions: 22 cm high × 16 cm deep × 9 cm wide.