Secker and Warburg 1959
On 25th June, 1958, one of the great unclimbed mountains of the world, the 25,550 foot Himalayan giant Rakaposhi, yielded to its conquerors at last. They were the author, Mike Banks, and his fellow climber Tom Patey. To Banks the triumph was particularly sweet, for only two years earlier he had led a small Anglo-American expedition which had almost got to the summit. In this book he tells the story of the failure, and the subsequent success...