Copyrighted by The Swiss Foundation For Mountaineering Research, " 'Everest 1952'--the story of the first Swiss expedition to that mountain--forms the greater part of the first volume (1953) of what is intended to become an annual series....Besides the Everest adventure, this volume includes illustrated stories of a journey through Nepal by Ella Maillart, some fascinating mountaineering adventures in the unexplored parts of the Andes by the Italian climber Ghiglione and the German climber Ertl, and some explorations in North-East Greenland."