View From The Summit.

HILLARY, Edmund.

Item Number: 137519

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1999.

Signed limited first edition of this autobiography by the first person to summit Mount Everest. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt tooling to the front and rear boards, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, ribbon bound in, illustrated. Signed by Edmund Hillary. In fine condition.

View From the Summit is the life story of a New Zealand country boy who daydreamed of wild adventures; the pioneering climber who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth after scaling the world's tallest peak; and the elder statesman and unlikely diplomat whose groundbreaking program of aid to Nepal continues to this day, paying his debt of worldwide fame to the Himalayan region. "Unavoidably gripping...gives an excellent sense of the constant risk when climbing at high altitude" (Sunday Telegraph).