Item #61357 Five Miles High: The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by the Members of the First American Karakoram Expedition; Illustrations from photographs taken by members of the expedition. Robert H. Bates, Paul K. Petzoldt, Charles S. Houston, William P. House, Richard L. Burdsall, Capt. Norman R. Streatfeild.
Five Miles High: The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by the Members of the First American Karakoram Expedition; Illustrations from photographs taken by members of the expedition
Five Miles High: The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by the Members of the First American Karakoram Expedition; Illustrations from photographs taken by members of the expedition

Five Miles High: The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by the Members of the First American Karakoram Expedition; Illustrations from photographs taken by members of the expedition

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939. First edition. 8vo. xii, (2), 381 pp. Plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps. Account of a 1938 ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world, that reached 26,000 feet, about 2200 feet short of the summit." Neate 65. Very good. Original red cloth (spine faded, spots of discoloration along rear joint), gilt spine title (dull). (#8421). Item #61357

Price: $250.00

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