The Climber’s Fireside Book

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Published by Heinemann, London, 1964, 1st UK Edition, D/w (a little worn, a few nicks), V.G.   Wilfrid Noyce (1917-1962) was an accomplished mountaineer and author who took part in the successful 1953 British Everest Expedition, made the effective first ascent of Machapuchare in the Annapurna Himal with A.D.M. Cox in 1957, and made the first ascent of Trivor (7,577 metres) in Pakistan in 1960 with Jack Sadler.  He was killed, together with Robin Smith, in a mountaineering accident in the Pamirs in 1962, having delivered the manuscript for this book of his selection from mountaineering writings to his publishers only a few days before departing to the Pamirs.