No Place for Men

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Published by Nicholas Vane, London (in association with Reed, N.Z.), 1965 (Reprint of 1964 1st Edition), Insc, D/w (slight wear edges), V.G..   A personal account of the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition 1960/61 (The Silver Hut Expedition), led by Sir Edmund Hillary, which attempted to climb Makalu, while experimenting with climbing at high altitude without oxygen (and also attempted to capture a live Yeti!).  The author, Peter Mulgrew (1927-1979), was taken ill with pulmonary oedema only a few hundred feet from the summit of Makalu, was involved in an epic descent, suffered severe frostbite, was lucky to survive and subsequently had both feet amputated. Mulgrew died in 1979 in an airplane crash, a scheduled Antarctic sightseeing flight on which he was acting as the guide, having replaced Hillary who had other commitments.  Hillary and Mulgrew were lifelong friends, Mulgrew was a member of Hillary’s team on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58, and in 1989 Hillary married June, Peter Mulgrew’s widow.