New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. 8vo. xii +244pp. 8pp of black and white photographs. SIGNED BY RIDGEWAY AND ARLENE BLUM ON THE TITLE PAGE. Blue paper and white cloth, very light sunning to top and bottom edges. Very fine. Fine dust jacket. Small neat former owner’s name and address on the front free endpaper, and a note in his hand on the last page. Arlene Blum is an American mountaineer, writer and environmental health scientist who is best known for leading the all-woman ascent of Annapurna. Bill Hoke, whose ownership signature is in the book, was an avid mountaineer and firefighter in Washington State, who assisted in many mountain rescues. This book is about 12 men and women, mostly weekend climbers who climbed Everest in the 1976 American Bicentennial Everest Expedition.