Gaurisankar and Cho Oyu
By Raymond Lambert & Claude Kogan, with a Foreword by Maurice Herzog, and translated from the French by Showell Styles.
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Gaurisankar and Cho Oyu
By Raymond Lambert & Claude Kogan, with a Foreword by Maurice Herzog, and translated from the French by Showell Styles.
In stock
Published by Hurst & Blackett, London, 1956, 1st UK Edition, D/w (repaired, but some pieces of the original missing on spine), D/w: Good, Book: V.G. The story of the 1954 Franco-Swiss Expedition which set out to reconnoitre mainly the difficult Gaurisankar (23,440 feet) but also Menlungtse (23,560 feet) and, if feasible, to attempt Gaurisankar. Much information was obtained but an attempt was not made. The expedition then moved on to attempt the nearby Cho Oyu (26,864 feet, 8,188 metres). They arrived to find Herbert Tichy’s Austrian Expedition already encamped – Tichy and his team made the first ascent of Cho Oyu on October 19th 1954. Lambert and Kogan tried to repeat the success but were thwarted by winter storms, having got to 25,600 feet on the mountain – for Kogan the highest a woman had been at that time. Lambert (1914-1997) was a member of the 1953 Swiss Everest Expedition, and Kogan (1919-1959), a leading French climber and mountaineer, died on Cho Oyu in 1959 while leading an all women attempt on the mountain.
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