Sivalaya – The 8000-metre Peaks of the Himalaya

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Published by Gastons-West Col, Reading, UK, 1978, 1st Edition, D/w (spine a little faded), Nr. Fine.   Louis C. Baume was a world traveller, mountaineer and Antarctic explorer who was the owner of the largest private archive in Britain on mountaineering, polar exploration and related topics, and was an internationally recognised authority on their literature and history. This is the classic reference book for the high mountains of the Himalayas.  The book is divided into three main sections – a general historical overview of the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges, individual chronological sketches and histories of each of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks up to the late 1970s, and a comprehensive, multi-language bibliography of literature and expedition records regarding the peaks.  Baume was a member of the South Georgia Expedition in 1955-56 and Mount Baume in South Georgia, first climbed in 2016 by Caradoc Jones, Stephen Venables, Skip Novak and Simon Richardson was named after him.