About this title: A Swedish climber chronicles his unique Mount Everest experience--from the travails along his 7,000-mile bicycle journey to the base of Everest to his scaling of the mountain without carrying oxygen--during the same month that 12 climbers lost their lives.
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Discovery Books, Owls Heads, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781563318306ISBN:156331830X
Description: As New in Very Good jacket. First Edition, third printing new hardcover book. Dust jacket has very minimal shelfwear to upper edge. No marks inside or out. I ship daily. read more
Edition: First US
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Discovery Books, New York
Date Published: 1999
Description: VG-/VG. 8vo. original two tone blue papered boards gilt in dustwrapper (clean ex-library with labels & rsms to FFE, remains of mylar partly glued to pastedowns (hidden behind d/w flaps), d/w partly glued to endpapers, tail edge slightly wrinkled & rubbed) in dustwrapper (slightly wrinkled & loose fitting, but bright & unmarked); pp. xii, 228, with illustrations. A very good copy. read more
Edition: First Paperback
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Discovery Books, New York
Date Published: 1999
Description: 8vo. original printed paper wraps (inscrip. inside front cover, wraps a little rubbed & creased); pp. xii, 228, with illustrations. A very good copy. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Discovery Books, New York
Date Published: 1999
Description: F-/F. 8vo. original two tone blue papered boards gilt (ex-library rsm's & label to FFE & top edge, slight label rems, to rear pastedown, otherwise as new) in dustwrapper; pp. xii, 228, with illustrations. A near fine copy. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. New York: Discovery Books 1999, stated First US ed., first printing. 8vo. original two tone blue papered boards in VG color pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii, 228. No reader's marks. read more
Edition: First US
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Discovery Books, New York
Date Published: 1999
Description: F-/F. 8vo. original two tone blue papered boards gilt (prev. owner's name to verso FFE) in dustwrapper; pp. xii, 228, with illustrations. A near fine copy. read more
Description: Good. 156331830X Ex-library book with usual markings. Clean text. SATISF GNTD + SHIPS W/IN 24 HRS. Ships in a padded envelope with free tracking. 44, 811. read more
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Binding: Cloth-backed Boards
Publisher: Discovery Books,, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781563318306ISBN:156331830X
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. Pp: xii, 228. Sixteen pages of colour photographs and maps, also in colour. Lists, acknowledgements, sources, index. The author hopped on his bike, pedaled 7, 000 miles to Nepal, nipped up Everest......without oxygen or Sherpas.....cleaned and tidied up after all the other climbers, slid back down, got back on his bike and went home. Well actually the story is a little more complex than that: Kropp has in fact climbed sixteen of his twenty-two chosen mountains from ... read more
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