8vo. With 2 folding maps (one in color), 43 photographic illustrations on 41 plates (including one folding panorama from a photograph by Vittorio Sella). Original publisher's maroon cloth gilt (spine slightly sunned). Provenance: Peter Hopkirk (bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's London, 14 October 1998, lot 120). FIRST EDITION, describing Freshfield's 1899 tour around Kangchenjunga. He was accompanied by E. J. Garwood and Vittorio Sella, and theirs was the first completed by Europeans. [Laid in:] Slip on a slightly smaller sheet. "Author's Compliments."