Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, entitled Ascent. In part, “I chipped steps over bump after bump, wondering a little desperately where the top could be…A few more whacks with my ice-axe and Tenzing and I stood on top of Everest. It was eleven thirty a.m. on May 29th 1953.” Nicely signed at the bottom in black ink. In very fine condition. R&R COA.