This was one of the most popular mountaineering books of all time; it sold double-digit millions of copies. It describes the 1950 French expedition to Annapurna, the first successful summit of an 8,000-meter peak. Author Maurice Herzog made the summit but lost most of his fingers to frostbite (making it all the more impressive he signed this book).
This is a first-edition, sixth printing UK hardcover. It is signed by Herzog on the half-title page and DATED "3rd of June, 1950" (the date of the Annapurna summit, not the date of the signing).
288 pages, photographic plates throughout (mostly b&w, a few color), and a fold-out panorama and map in the back. Dust jacket complete with minor tears and chips at the corners. Dust jacket is not price-clipped although each corner has been trimmed
