Mountaineering.- Norton ( Lt.-Col. Edward Felix) The Fight for Everest: 1924 , first edition , inscribed by Henry Woodall on front free endpaper, with A.L.s. from Noel Odell to Woodall dated 24.2.26 thanking him for dinner, 2 photographs of W.H.L[ewin] with Mrs. Odell and photograph of Sandy Irvine on skis all loosely inserted, plates, some colour, one folding, folding colour map at end, light spotting, original green cloth, some faint mottling but a good copy, [Neate N31], 8vo, 1925. ⁂ Noel Odell (1890-1987), geologist and mountaineer, who took part in the 1924 Everest expedition on which George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappeared. Noel was the last person to see the pair, climbing up the ridge towards the summit. In 1923 Irvine had taken part in an expedition to Spitsbergen led by Odell, on which the photograph of him on skis was probably taken. On the verso is written "A.C.Irvine was one of the members of the sledging party. Snow spectacles were necessary as the glare of the ice is blinding." W.H.Lewin was the author of Climbs , issued in an edition of 250 signed copies in 1932.
Mountaineering.- Norton ( Lt.-Col. Edward Felix) The Fight for Everest: 1924 , first edition , inscribed by Henry Woodall on front free endpaper, with A.L.s. from Noel Odell to Woodall dated 24.2.26 thanking him for dinner, 2 photographs of W.H.L[ewin] with Mrs. Odell and photograph of Sandy Irvine on skis all loosely inserted, plates, some colour, one folding, folding colour map at end, light spotting, original green cloth, some faint mottling but a good copy, [Neate N31], 8vo, 1925. ⁂ Noel Odell (1890-1987), geologist and mountaineer, who took part in the 1924 Everest expedition on which George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappeared. Noel was the last person to see the pair, climbing up the ridge towards the summit. In 1923 Irvine had taken part in an expedition to Spitsbergen led by Odell, on which the photograph of him on skis was probably taken. On the verso is written "A.C.Irvine was one of the members of the sledging party. Snow spectacles were necessary as the glare of the ice is blinding." W.H.Lewin was the author of Climbs , issued in an edition of 250 signed copies in 1932.
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