Because It Is There

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Published by Cassell, London, 1959, 1st UK Edition, slight foxing, Insc, D/w, Nr.Fine.   Autobiography of New Zealand mountaineer, adventurer and photographer George Lowe who was a member of John Hunt’s successful 1953 Everest Expedition, the only other New Zealander on the team alongside Sir Edmund Hillary, and also a member of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Fuchs and Hillary in 1955-58.  These memoirs are mainly Antarctica.