Forerunners to Everest
by , R. Lambert. Harper, $4.00.
This is the modest and stirring account, illustrated with fine photographs, of the Swiss preand post-monsoon attempts on Everest in 1952, It was the Swiss who explored for the first time the whole southern approach to the mountain. Their struggles with the fearful Khumhu Icefall and up the towering Lhotse face to the South Col are made doubly dramatic by tin* knowledge that the route they pioneered to within a few hundred feet of the summit was more or less that which eventually brought victory to the British team.
Readers of this story will fully agree with the response which Sir John Hunt made when he was congratulated by the Swiss climbers: “ To you — a good half of the glory.”