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Victoire sur l'Everest
Paris, Amiot-Dumont, 1953. Large 8vo, publisher?s wrappers with folding flaps, in dust jacket, black-and-white full-page photographs, 350 pp.; very good copy, with minor wear to the corners and edges of the jacket.
First trade edition in French of this complete account of the successful first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. Warm presentation inscription by the author, John Hunt: ?A mon ami René Mallieux / Bons souvenirs du Fontainebleau?, and signed as well by Edmund Hillary and Alfred Gregory. René Mallieux was one of the most important Belgian alpinists of the first half of the twentieth century. A leading member of the Club Alpine Belge, he actively promoted the organization and was the initiator of climbing schools in Belgium. In 1953, Mallieux invited John Hunt to give a lecture on the Everest expedition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Hillary and Gregory were the other members of the expedition present at the event. It is very likely that this copy was presented and signed on that occasion in thanks to Mallieux for organizing the conference. The reference to Fontainebleau alludes to the famous sandstone outcrops in the Forest of Fontainebleau, well known among climbers. Mallieux and Hunt almost certainly climbed there together while Hunt was serving at the Allied Forces headquarters in Fontainebleau. An interesting witness to the early days of European alpinism.
First trade edition in French of this complete account of the successful first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. Warm presentation inscription by the author, John Hunt: ?A mon ami René Mallieux / Bons souvenirs du Fontainebleau?, and signed as well by Edmund Hillary and Alfred Gregory. René Mallieux was one of the most important Belgian alpinists of the first half of the twentieth century. A leading member of the Club Alpine Belge, he actively promoted the organization and was the initiator of climbing schools in Belgium. In 1953, Mallieux invited John Hunt to give a lecture on the Everest expedition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Hillary and Gregory were the other members of the expedition present at the event. It is very likely that this copy was presented and signed on that occasion in thanks to Mallieux for organizing the conference. The reference to Fontainebleau alludes to the famous sandstone outcrops in the Forest of Fontainebleau, well known among climbers. Mallieux and Hunt almost certainly climbed there together while Hunt was serving at the Allied Forces headquarters in Fontainebleau. An interesting witness to the early days of European alpinism.