I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone: The Story of Maurice Wilson

First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographic plates and three maps. Near fine in original green boards and near fine pictorial dust jacket. Light fading to top of covers; dust jacket lightly edge worn, especially at head and foot of spine panel. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 158 pp. A great copy of the exploration classic.

Wilson was a British soldier, mountaineer and aviator who is known for his ill-fated attempt to climb Mount Everest alone in 1934, where he died in the attempt. The book is based upon Wilson's personal journal found with his body on the mountain a year after his death by Eric Shipton and fellow climbers.