xvii, [1], 284 pp. With 33 photogravure plates, including portait of Filippi, with tissue guards; 4 folding halftone photographic panoramas; 1 double-page lithographed plate of microscopic organisms; 2 folding color maps loose in rear endpaper pocket, 1 of them quite large. 11x7½, original green cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. First Edition.

Filippi's account of his ascent of the second highest peak in both the United States and Canada, and the highest peak in the world that is so close to tidewater. The second ascent of Mt. St. Elias, a notoriously difficult task due to the typically terrible weather conditions engendered by its proximity to the ocean, was not made until 1946, by a group from the Harvard Mountaineering Club. Wickersham 6362.