TIGER OF THE SNOWS The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest Written in Collaboration with James Ramsey Ullman

First edition, fourth impression. With the famous photo from the first summitting of Everest as frontispiece, numerous black and white photos on double-sided glossy plates and sketch maps of route on Everest. 8vo, publisher's original dark blue cloth, the upper cover decorated with the seal of the Himalayan Club in gilt, the spine gilt lettered, in the original dustjacket pictorially decorated by Dwight Shepler. xvi; 294pp. A fine copy, the cloth of the spine just lightly mellowed, the jacket is complete and solid with just extremely minor edge wear, the spine is also faded a bit and there are a few spots on the back cover.

Edizione: "one of the great adventure stories of our time--- a magnificent story of the world's last frontier" - dustjacket.<br> as one of the great heros of the last century tenzing’s name stands with those like amundsen, scott, lindberg, hillary, gagarin and armstrong as those who inspired, and largly defined, the 20th century. tenzing is of course the “humble sherpa” who accompanied sir edmund hillary to the peak of mt. everest in 1953. western cultural bias, along with langage and essesability barriors, focused most of the fame for the accomplishement on hillary, but tenzing’s contributions were always recognized and he became without a doubt the most internationally famous himalayan of his time. this is his story in his own words (as told to james ramsey ullman) of his amazing journey from poor and humble beginnings to, quite literally, the top of the world.