K2 The Savage Mountain -- SIGNED by 7: Charles Houston, Robert Bates, Peter Schoening, George Bell, Dee Molenaar, Tony Streather, Robert Craig

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1979 FIRST PAPERBACK printing with transcripts from taped discussion of trip from on the mountain in 1953 (not in 1st edition) & additional material by members based on 25th reunion of team. SIGNED by Charles Houston, Robert Bates, George Bell, Tony Streather, and Robert Craig on the title page. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Peter Schoening (dated 1979) and by Dee Molenaar on the first blank page following the introduction. Also, the book has an original unsigned K2 bookplate designed/drawn by Dee Molenaar on the inside front cover. This book is signed by all team members except Colonel Ata-Utah and Arthur Gilky (who perished during the expedition). Items signed by all seven of these team members are rare. The least common team member signatures on any copy of K2 The Savage Mountain are those of Ata-Ullah and George Bell. Ata-Ulla lived in Pakistan and died in 1977. George Bell, a leading physicist and theoretical biologist, prominent with the Human Genome Project and earlier with nuclear reactor design/theory, was the first American team member to pass away (2000). Bell made the first ascent of Masherbrum, Yerupaja (did not summit), Salcantay, and several peaks in N. America. The book has generally clean covers, rubbing along spine edges and on front cover, spine crease, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages (other than team member signatures and inscriptions), solid binding, nothing loose or missing, no foxing. The book measures 208mm tall x 133mm, and has 394 pages, 36 b/w photos, 9 b/w portrait photos of team members, many Molenaar sketches, index. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. N° de ref. del artículo 003577

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