Kingswood, Surrey (U.K.):: Kaye & Ward, Ltd., 1983. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (�9.95 net). No chips. No tears. No creases. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Captivating and inspirational story of a man who became a professional mountaineer despite having lost both legs below the knee. Illustrated with 16 pages of full-color photographs. Glossary. Appendix on Climbing Technique. List of Major Ascents, 1970-1983. Index. Bound in the original blue boards, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "From a boyhood's love of mountains Norman Croucher triumphed over an accident at the age of 19 in which he lost both legs below the knee, to go on to fulfill his dream of becoming a mountaineer and who has climbed and led expeditions in almost all the major mountain ranges of the world. [After] training in the Alps, he went on to Peru, Argentina, Kashmir and China, where he made several ascents in excess of 20,000 feet. The story of his grueling battle on Muztagh Ata, 24,757 feet, in China, is enough to leave one breathless. Even when one of his artificial legs broke in Argentina he would not give up but set out on one leg to climb a mountain more than a thousand feet higher than Mont Blanc, the highest of the Alps.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (vi), 217pp.

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A Man and His Mountains

Publisher

Kaye & Ward, Ltd., Kingswood, Surrey (U.K.):

Publication Date

1983

Language

English

ISBN 10

0718220005

ISBN 13

9780718220006

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Hardcover

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First Edition.

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Fine condition.

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Fine dust jacket.

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