For Sale 1st UK Edition

Cloth, dj, F/F. 215pp, many colour illustrations, a nice fine as new copy. ~ 1st English edition. ~ Messner, the worlds greatest mountaineer, describes the routes & challenges of the Big Walls - covering all seven continents & every great mountain range. A nice book.

Cloth, dj, F/VG+. 254pp, decorated endpapers, 32pp colour plates, b/w illustrations & maps, spine of dustjacket evenly faded as usual , price crossed out in pen, a nice copy. ~ 1st edition. ~ Messeners account of his & Peter Habelers groundbreaking ascent of Everest without using supplementary Oxygen. the first time the mountain hed been climbed in a fair way. Messner went back 2 year later & climbed the mountain again, solo.

Cloth, dj, F/VG. 323pp, b/w & colour illustrations throughout, index, a fine copy in an edge rubbed & slightly bummped dustjacket. ~ 1st UK edition. ~ Detailed account of Messners amazing 1980 ascent of Everest which he completed alone, with no support, and with no Oxygen. The book also tells of his rip through Tibet on his way to the mountains.

Cloth, dj, F/VG+. 248pp, b/w & colour illustrations throughout, index, a near fine copy in an edge rubbed & slightly bummped dustjacket which has a sunned spine.. ~ 1st UK edition. ~ Detailed account of Messners amazing coup of being the first person to scall all 14 summits in the World which are over 8000m in height. The book give a history of each summit & the expeditions which have been made to it as well as a route map for Messner's ascent. That he did the climbs in his own inimitable Alpine style makes the achievement all the more amazing.

Cloth, dj, F/VG. 323pp, b/w & colour illustrations throughout, index, a fine copy in an edge rubbed & slightly bummped dustjacket. ~ 1st UK edition. ~ Detailed account of Messners amazing 1980 ascent of Everest which he completed alone, with no support, and with no Oxygen. The book also tells of his trip through Tibet on his way to the mountains.

Cloth, dj, F/F. 205pp, 16pp colour plates, b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy, spine of dustjacket very slightly yellowed. ~ 1st edition. ~ Account of climbs on Lhotse & Hidden Peak. Messner's success on Hidden peak, at 8068m made him the first person to have climbed 3 8000m peaks. Messner is the Greatest living Mountaineer, His Alpine style ascents of all 14 8000m peaks a feat still unequalled.

1st ed.