I'd highly recommend this delightful book. A very well written and easy reading tale of a 1961 duel expedition: to the Kulu region in Indian, and the Jagdula in the wild west of Nepal. However, this is much more than a mountaineering book, with descriptions of: planning; overland travel, by landrover, to and from India; a report on the time in India between the expeditions; a suitable focus on the trek to the mountains and the people of those regions, their porters and sherpas; and a significant focus on exploration (they took surveying equipment as part of the sponsor arrangements); all set to the background of the supportive mountaineering atmosphere in the UK at that time. The outcomes were not insignificant as Lha Shamma was the highest first ascent by a female team at that time (when women faced real barriers, that such trips really helped break down).
The version I read is the splendid new paperback reprint which is part of the Pinnacle Club hundredth anniversary celebrations. It has some added appendices (providing extra detail of the six expedition team members and updating their stories to the present day: sadly only two are still living) and colour photographs (quite a few of which are newly published). I subsequently looked at the original hardback and it makes a worthy revised edition.
While on the subject of history, the new Pinnacle Club centenary archives are a great resource, in particular, in my view, the Audio Stories.
https://www.pc100.org/
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