SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE CLOUDS
Written by Edmund Hillary
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
in 1964
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- TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN)
- NEPAL
- MOUNTAINEERING
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SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE CLOUDS
Written by Edmund Hillary.
Stock no. 570381
1st USA.
1964.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The story of Sir Edmund Hillary's return to the Himalayas to build a school for the Sherpas. Includes the assaults on two great unclimbed peaks, Taweche and Kangtega. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. xi and 180 pages including index. SIGNED by author (Ed Hillary) to title page (no dedication). Light rubbinh to top & tail of spine. Small address label on front endpaper. Text block browned. Endpapers lightly browned. Else, contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn, and rubbed at corners with slight loss.
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Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- 1. "Our children have eyes but still they are blind!"
- 2. Water for Khumjung
- 3. Epidemic
- 4. Pangboche - Schoolhouse in the Clouds
- 5. "Maybe she'll go, maybe she won't"
- 6. Medical Clinic
- 7. The Memsahibs - "Very fast, very strong"
- 8. Schoolhouse on the Tibetan Border
- 9. Race against the Monsoon
- 10. "You will come back!"
- Roster of the expedition