Signed on the half-title page by 13 of the Everest expedition members, including: Ed[mund] Hillary, John Hunt (author and leader of the expedition), George Lowe, Michael Ward, Charles Wylie, George Band, Alfred Gregory, Times correspondent Jan [James] Morris, team reserve J. H. Emlyn Jones, Peter Lloyd (who’s signature is clipped and affixed), Michael Westmacott, John Jackson, and another team reserve Hamish Nicol. The account of the first successful ascent to the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. The final ascent to the summit was made by Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing, and Hillary contributed the sixteenth chapter giving the account of that last climb.