Postcards from the Ledge Collected Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child

Seattle, Washington: Mountaineers Books. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0898865840 . White black hardcovers in Fine condition with very light front corner bumping. The DJ is unclipped and in Near Fine condition. "The 29 essays included are reworkings of pieces that Child (Thin Air) wrote for Climbing and Outside magazines. They range from accounts of the detritus left on the summits of the world's highest peaks to the furious controversies about two spectacular climbs that some skeptics doubt even took place, although, in one case, the skepticism about a woman's solo ascent of Mt. Everest seems to have resulted from blatant sexism. There are stories of heroism; a tale of tragedy on K2; a picture of the old Tibet, which is being rebuilt by its Chinese conquerors, who, Child reports, are replacing antique treasures with "tumble-down concrete schlock"; and, of course, the author's adventures as he climbed peaks from his native Australia to Europe, Asia and the Americas, the whole enlivened by his civilized wit." ; B&W Photographs; 1 x 9.4 x 6.23 Inches; 224 pages .