Mountain range that stretches for 1600 miles

1801-1850
William MOORCROFT & George TREBECK : Travels in the Himalayan Provinces
of Hindustan & the Punjab (1840)
G T VIGNE : A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghazno, Kabul & Afghanistan (1840)
G T VIGNE : Travels in Kashmir, Ladakh, Iskardo, etc (1842)

1851-1860
Abbe HUC : Travels in Tartary, Thibet & China During the Years 1844-6 (1852 London) - 2 vols
Joseph HOOKER : Himalayan Journals (1854) - 2 vols
Peter SEMYONOV : First Ascent of the Tian Shan or Celestial Mountains (1859 Moscow)

1861-1870
Peter SEMYONOV : Djungaria and the Celstial Mountains (1863 Moscow)

1871-1900
N PREZHEVALSKI : Mongolia, the Tangut Country and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet
(1876) - 2 vols
N PREZHEVALSKI : From Kvlja across the Tien Shan to Lob Nor (1879)
A A A KINLOCH : Large Game Shooting in Thibet & the Himalayas, etc (1885)
W M CONWAY : Climbing & Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas (1894 Fisher Unwin)
with a Supplementary volume
G N CURZON : The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus (1896)
G S ROBERTSON : The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush (1896)
S J STONE : In and Beyond the Himalaya (1896)
Francis YOUNGHUSBAND : The Heart of a Continent (1896)
W H WORKMAN & Mrs Fanny BULLOCK : In the Ice-World of the Himalaya (1900)

1901-1910
Sarat Chandra DAS : Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet (1902)
C MERZBACHER : The Central Tyan Shan Mountains (1905)
W H WORKMAN & Mrs Fanny BULLOCK : Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh (1908)
W H WORKMAN & Mrs Fanny BULLOCK : Peaks and Glaciers of the Nun Kun (1909)
W H WORKMAN & Mrs Fanny BULLOCK : The Call of the Snowy Hispar (1910)
C G BRUCE : Twenty Years in the Himalayas (1910 Edward Arnold)

1911-1920
Filippo de FILIPPI : Kararkoram and Western Himalaya (1912)
Col P R BAIRNSFATHER : Sport and Nature in the Himalayas (1914)
S HEDIN : Southern Tibet (1917 Stockholm) - 9 vols
W H WORKMAN & Mrs Fanny BULLOCK : Two Summers in the Ice-Fields
of the Eastern Karakoram (1917)

1921-1930
C K HOWARD-BURY : Mount Everest - The Reconnaissance 1921 (1922 Edward Arnold)
+ 200 De Luxe numbered edition with 14 extra plates
C G BRUCE : The Assault on Mount Everest (1923 Edward Arnold)
Sir Charles BELL : Tibet Past and Present (1924)
C J WESSELS : Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia (1924 The Hague)
E F NORTON : The Fight for Everest 1924 (1925 Edward Arnold)
Sir Charles BELL : The People of Tibet (1928)

1931-1940
J B L NOEL : Through Tibet to Everest (1927 Edward Arnold)
S G BURRARD & H H HAYDEN : A Sketch of the Geography of the Himalayan Mountains & Tibet
(1933 Dehra Dun. Rev Ed)
H L RUTTLEDGE : Everest 1933 (1934 Hodder & Stoughton)
C G BRUCE : Himalayan Wanderer (1934 Alexander Maclehose)
Francis YOUNGHUSBAND : Everest - The Challenge (1936. Rev Ed)
G GORER : Himalayan Village (1938)
Charles S HOUSTON : The American Karakoram Expedition to K2 (1938)

1941-1960
R H PHILLIMORE : Historical Records of the Survey of India : Collected and Compiled by Phillimore
(1945-62 Survey of India, Dehra Dun) - 5 vols
[The 5th volume, dealing with the period 1843-60, was withdrawn because of the strategic
sensitivity of the subject matter. Only 3 copies are known to exist in the UK - British Library,
Library of the Institute of Surveyors & Library of the Royal geographical Society.]
Wilfrid NOYCE : Mountains and Men (1947 Bles)
W H MURRAY : The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951 Dent)
Maurice HERZOG : Annapurna (1952 Cape)
Eric SHIPTON : The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951 (1952 Hodder & Stoughton)
H W TILMAN : Nepal Himalaya (1952)
Heinrich HARRER : Seven Years in Tibet (1953)
W H MURRAY : The Story of Everest (1953 Dent)
Sir John HUNT : The Ascent of Everest (1953 Hodder & Stoughton)
Wilfrid NOYCE : South Col (1954 Heinemann)
Alfred GREGORY : The Picture of Everest (1954 Hodder & Stoughton)
Earl DENMAN : Alone to Everest (1954 Collins)
(Ed) James Ramsey ULLMAN : Man of Everest - The Autobiography of Tenzing (1955 Harrap)
Sir Edmund HILLARY : High Adventure (1955 Hodder & Stoughton)
A DESIO : Ascent of K2 (1955)
Charles EVANS : Kanchenjunga - The Untrodden Peak (1956 Hodder & Stoughton)
Albert EGGLER : The Everest-Lhotse Adventure (1957 Allen & Unwin)
James MORRIS : Coronation Everest (1958 Faber)
Chan-Chun SHIH : Conquest of Minya Konka (1959 Peking)
Ke-Hsien YANG : The Ascent of Mustaghata (1959 Peking)
Sir John HUNT & Chris BRASHER : Red Snows (1960 Hutchinson)

1961-1970
T HAGEN : Nepal (1960)
Peter fleming : BAYONETS TO LHASA (1961)
Lionel TERRAY : Conquistadors of the Useless - From the Alps to Annapurna & Beyond
(1963 Gollancz)
Gaston REBUFFAT : On Snow and Rock (1963 Nicholas Kaye)
T HAGEN, G O DYHRENFURTH & E SCHNEIDER : Mount Everest - Formation, Population
& Exploration (1963)
A GANSSER : Geology of the Himalayas (1964)
Malcolm SLESSER : Red Peak - A Personal Account of the British Soviet Expedition 1962
(1964 Hodder & Stoughton)
Woodrow Wilson SAYRE : Four Against Everest (1964 Arthur Barker)
M P PETROV : Deserts of Central Asia (1966 Moscow) - 2 vols
Chris BONINGTON : I Choose to Climb (1966 Gollancz)
G J ALDER : British India's Northern Frontier 1865-95 (1967)
Joe BROWN : The Hard Years (1967 Gollancz)
Showell STYLES : Mallory of Everest (1967 Hamish Hamilton)
Eric SHIPTON : THat Untravelled World (1969)
Dennis GRAY : Rope Boy (1970 Gollancz)

1971-1980
George WOODCOCK : Into Tibet (1971)
Don WHILLANS & Alick ORMEROD : Portrait of a Mountaineer (1971 Heinemann)
Tom PATEY : One Man's Mountain (1971 Gollancz)
Sir Edmund HILLARY : Nothing Venture, Nothing Win (1975 Hodder & Stoughton)
Francis KEENLYSIDE : Peaks and Pioneers (1976)
John KEAY : When Men & Mountains Meet (1977)
Peter HABELER : Everest - Impossible Victory (1979 Arlington Books)
Herbert CARR : The Irvine Diaries - Andrew Irvine & the Enigma of Everest 1924
(1979 Gastons-West Col)
John KEAY : The Gilgit Game (1979)
George SCHALLER : Stones of Silence - Journeys in the Himalayas (1980)

After 1981
Walt UNSWORTH : Everest (1981 Allen Lane)
Chris BONINGTON : Kongur - China's Elusive Summit (1982 Hodder & Stoughton)
Galen ROWELL : Mountains of the Middle Kingdom (1983)
Zhang MINGTAO : The Roof of the World (1983)
Tom HOLZEL & Audrey SALKELD : The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine (1986 Cape)
Reinhold MESSNER : All Fourteen Eight-Thousanders (1988 Crowood Press)
Andrew J KAUFFMAN & William L PUTNAM : K2 - The 1939 Tragedy (1992 Diadem Books)
Alfred GREGORY : Alfred Gregory's Everest (1993 Constable)
Rebecca STEPHENS : On Top of the World (1994 Macmillan)
Jim CURRAN : K2 - The Story of the Savage Mountain (1995 Hodder & Stoughton)

READING
W R Neate : Mountaineering and Its Literature (1978 Cicerone Press pb)
(1986 Cicerone. Revised Ed)
Edward Pyatt : The Guinness Book of Mountains and Mountaineering Facts & Feats (1980 Guinness)
Audrey Salkeld & Rosie Smith : One Step in the Clouds (1990 Diadem Books)