Peter Habeler and Reinhold Messner together made the first ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. This was a visionary ascent for Himalayan alpinism - it proved that the style could be improved from siege-style expeditions to the fast and light tactics favored in the Alps.
Hardcover, first US edition, first printing. In translation from the original German. 224 pages with complete dust jacket, not price-clipped.
