EVEREST: Mountain Without Mercy

Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1953. Introduction by Tim Cahill. Afterword by David Breashears. Pp. 256, printed in blue & black, illustrated in colour throughout (many full or double page), appendices, index; med. 4to; black padded art. leather, lettered and ruled in gilt; a.e.g.; ribbon marker; dust wrapper; National Geographic Society, Washington, DC., 1997. First edition. *Featuring IMAX camera imagery from the film Everest. 'It took two years to perfect the specially modified IMAX camera and the team of photographers, filmmakers, scientists, and climbers who would work together to get it to the summit of Mount Everest. It took two months to acclimate to the thin air and prepare for the final assault on the Death Zone - a region so high that without acclimatization, humans die within minutes. It took barely two terrifying days for the mountain to claim eight lives and turn the Everest Film Expedition team led by world-class mountaineer and award-winning filmmaker David Breashear, into eyewitnesses - and lifesavers - caught up in a tragedy' [wrapper blurb].