eBay material?

[Jeebus]

i bought a used "Everest: Mountain without Mercy" book by Broughton Coburn (i like looking at pictures you know) and the private seller who sold it through amazon sent me a copy that is signed by Viesturs, Araceli Segarra, Jamling Norgay, a personal photo of Beck Weathers glued inside and a couple other signatures that I haven't been able to decipher yet. As a climbing enthusiast it is a pretty big deal for me...if only these people were better known to the rest of the world this might have been ebay material.

 

just ranting coz I wanted to share my excitement.

[Kevin_Matlock]

Rock-n-fucking-roll! SCORE! Congrats.

[catbirdseat]

Why would someone want to sell something like that? It must have been acquired from an estate.

[Jeebus]

exactly. some unassuming person just sold it. I will scan the page with the signatures and post it. help me decipher the 2 other signatures that I haven't been able to read yet. its not brashears...isn't rob schauer either. that was the team that year in 1996.

[catbirdseat]

I have Brashear's book at home. I can go look up some names.

[Jeebus]

ok...here is the scan of the autographed page.

the last two are the ones I can't figure out.

 

autograph page

[iain]

score! that bottom signature is Beck from cascadeclimbers.com

[cj001f]

Why would someone want to sell something like that? It must have been acquired from an estate.

 

Or stolen. I'd guess the latter.

[Mal_Con]

I have a German friend who gave me a 1st German edition of Everest autographed by Messner, no one is getting that,my precious.

[Thinker]

If you're into this kind of thing, check out Chessler books. Here's the start of a recent email I got from them (the email goes on for several more pages, let me know if you want me to PM you the rest of the text...or just sign up for their mailing list):

 

BOOKS SIGNED BY REINHOLD MESSNER AND PETER HABELER

 

DEAR FRIENDS,

 

This week we went to Europe to complete a four year project, getting all

the books of Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler signed by those two

immortal climbers. (This was our 7th foreign trip in the last two years to

get books autographed!)

 

Reinhold Messner's climbing accomplishments, especially his ascent of all

14 of the 8000 meter peaks have made him the world's greatest climber. What

has also become evident is that he is history's greatest mountaineering

author, having written over 60 books in 35 years. About twenty titles have

been translated into English and all of those are listed below, including

several that are quite scarce.

 

Quantities are limited on most titles - we usually have one to ten of each.

The only titles of which we have many of are ALL 14 EIGHT THOUSANDERS, and

the new edition of BIG WALLS which are signed by Messner and Habeler, and

have priced them a little lower. In some cases we have both UK and USA

editions and when they are identical, we will ship whichever copy looks

better.

 

Order by E-Mail, phone or on our website. Details are at the bottom.

E-mail is info@chesslerbooks.com

Phone is 800 654-8502

Website is www.chesslerbooks.com

 

Michael Chessler

[Mal_Con]

To me it is worth more than money. nuff said

[catbirdseat]

Okay, I finally got around to looking in Breasheares' book, High Exposure. Besides the team members already mentioned (Viesturs, Breashears, Segarra, Norgay and Schauer), there was also Sumiyo Tsuzuki, Paula Viesturs (basecamp manager), Wongchu Sherpa and Jangbu Sherpa.