Fatal Mountaineer by Robert Roper (2002)

The High Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend.

Biography of Unsoeld, who made the first ascent of the West Ridge of Everest in 1963 along with Tom Hornbein, and later led a disastrous and contentious expedition to Nanda Devi where his daughter, Nanda Devi Unsoeld, died. (John Roskelley tells his side of that story in his book Nanda Devi: The Tragic Expedition.)

Hardcover, 306 pages with two inserts of pictures (one b&w, one color). Dust jacket has been split with a knife on the spine, but is now encased in a plastic brodart and handles as normal. Slight mark on spine of book from same knife but binding is not pierced or split.