Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage

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Published by Hodder and Stoughton London, 1956, 1st Edition, Insc, D/w (some wear edges), V.G.   A classic of mountain literature.  Hermann Buhl was an Austrian climber, whose outstanding achievement was the 1953 first ascent of Nanga Parbat, 8125 metres, solo and without oxygen. After making the 1957 first ascent of Broad Peak, 8047 metres, he died shortly afterwards while descending from Chogolisa with Kurt Diemberger.  Before his successful Nanga Parbat expedition, 31 people had already died trying to make the first ascent.  Buhl is the only mountaineer to have made the first ascent of an Eight-thousander solo.