1978 Sangay Survived: The Story of the Ecuador Volcano Disaster

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. Illustrated with thirty-two images across sixteen plates and four in-text images. Collated complete. On 12th August 1976, six Englishmen set off from their base camp at the foot of a snow-covered mountain in the Ecuadorean Andes as part of a reconnaissance party for a scientific expedition. Within seven days two were dead and three seriously injured. This is a survivor's story of the eruption and what happened during those fateful days. Written by Richard Snailman, an English explorer and author who was one of the men injured during this eruption.