Himalaya

Description

Published by Robert Hale, London, 1971, 1st UK Edition, Bookplate, D/w (some wear edges, small nicks), V.G.    Herbert Tichy (1912-1987) was an Austrian mountaineer, geologist and author, best known for his small-team first ascent of Cho Oyu (8,188 metres) in 1954 with Sepp Jochler and Pasang Dawa Lama, and his subsequent excellent and now scarce book on their fine achievement, Cho Oyu: By Favour of the Gods.  Tichy had been to the Himalayas and Karakoram seven times when he wrote this book on the Himalaya.  He presents not a scholarly monograph but rather a record based on his own memories of his travels and expeditions, well illustrated throughout in colour and black-and-white, with a number of tipped-in plates in this large format volume.