The best Mount Everest book from 1953 - probably. This rare example is signed by many of the Expedition members including John Hunt and Ed Hillary.

John (Brigadier Sir, C.B.E., D.S.O.) Hunt THE ASCENT OF EVEREST. Hodder & Stoughton. 1953 1st. edition. published 12.11.53 (500,000 copies) pp300. cold. frontis. 7 cold. plates. 48 b/w. text illus. by Charles Evans. Signed on f.f.e.p. and again on dedication page (i.e. twice) by John Hunt, E.P. Hillary, Griffith Pugh, George Lowe, Michael Ward, Charles Wylie, M.H. Westmacott, George Band and (just once) by Wilfrid Noyce, Tom Bourdillon, Charles Evans (just once), Alf Gregory, Tom Stobart. Tenzing signature tipped in. An extraordinarily unique copy so signed. top and bottom sp. sl. sunned in excellent 25/- unpc dw Near Fine £4,750