Nanda Devi

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Some library labels and markings. Vertical crease to middle of spine. Some small 5mm tears and chips to cloth at head and tail of spine. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; First printing. xvi, 310 pages + frontispiece + 26 plates. Original black cloth boards with blue lettering on spine and front board. llustrated front endpaper. Page dimensions: 222 x 143mm. Captioned tissue guard present for all plates including frontispiece. Contents: Foreword by Hugh Ruttledge; Innocents from Nepal - and London; The Secret Shrine; The First Crossing of the Watershed (Badrinath-Gaumukh); The Second Crossing of the Watershed (Badrinath-Kedarnath); The Second Nanda Devi Venture. Illustrations: North Face of the East Peak of Nanda Devi; Angtharkay, Shipton, Passange, Tilman and Kusang; Alaknanda River above Joshimath; Landslip; Peaks of the Southern Rim of the Nanda Devi Basin from the "Sunderdhunga Col"; Passang, Kusang and Angtharkay; Forest-Clad Foot Hills; Nanda Ghunti from above the Wan Pass; Plane-Tabling; "The Curtain"; Negotiating a Difficult Bit in the Rishi Nala; Clearing Mist; Unnamed Peak on the Eastern Rim of the Nanda Devi Basin; On Broken Glacier; Twin Peaks of Nanda Devi from the Ice Plateau at the Head of the Great North Glacier; North Face of the Main Peak of Nanda Devi; Hindu Temple; Camp amongst the Glaciers; Peaks of the Watershed; Gaumukh (The Cow's Mouth). The Infant River Ganges issuing from the Ice of the Gangotri Glacier; Temple of Badrinath; Satopanth Peaks; Steep Ice; Himalayan Forest; The Men from Mana Smoking a Pipe; Glacier Tables; The South Side of the Twin Peaks. ; 8vo .