Cho Oyu, By Favour of the Gods

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Published by Methuen & Co, London, 1957, 1st UK Edition, some foxing to D/w, edges and prelims, D/w, V.G.   Herbert Tichy (1912-1987) was an Austrian climber, geologist, writer and journalist.   Along with Sepp Jochler and Pasang Dawa Lama, he made the first ascent of Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,188 metres, in October 1954.  Their expedition was one of the smallest at the time to have succeeded on a major Himalayan peak.  The mountain was first attempted by the British in 1952, as preparation for Mount Everest the following year, with the expedition being led by Eric Shipton and including Edmund Hillary, Tom Bourdillon and George Lowe.  Cho Oyu was the fifth eight-thousander to be climbed, after Annapurna (1950), Everest (1953), Nanga Parbat (1953) and K2 (1954).