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Gervasutti

GERVASUTTI'S CLIMBS Translated by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957

71,50 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, États-Unis d'Amérique)

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Détails

Année
1957
Lieu d'édition
London
Auteur
Gervasutti
Éditeurs
Rupert Hart-Davis
Edition
First edition in English of SCALATE NELLE ALPI. A copy with fine
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

First edition in English of SCALATE NELLE ALPI. A copy with fine provenance, coming from the collection of famed climber Eric Roberts. With 15 illustrations from black and white photographs on glossy double-sided plates. 8vo, publisher's original burgundy cloth lettered on the spine in silver. 201 pp. A fine copy.

Edizione: a classic account of mountaineering in the dolomite and mont blanc ranges as well as in the andes. gervasutti, also known as "il fortissimo", started climbing at the age of 16 years. together with other well known climbers of the time he climbed the most difficult and sought-after faces in the western alps. gervasutti died in a mountaineering accident on the mont blanc du tacul.