A volume in the STORY OF MAN LIBRARY, prepared by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOK SERVICE 583 illustrations 356 in full color, 19 maps Staff for this book MELVILLE BELL GROSVENOR Editor-in-chief MERLE SEVERY Editor and Art Director EDWARDS PARK Associate Editor WAYNE BARRETT, JOSEPH A. CALLANAN, JAMES A. COX, SEYMOUR L. FISHBEIN, JOHN J. PUTMAN, Editor-writers; ROSS BENNETT, EDWARD C. SHEPHERD Researcher-writers ANNE DIRKES KOBOR Picture research JOHN M. LAVERY Layout and production WILLIAM W. SMITH, JOE M. BARLETT, Engravings and printing DOROTHY M. CORSON (Index) KARL GUDENBERG (Maps) HOWARD E. PAINE ( Design consultant), ANDREW POGGENPOHL (Paintings), MARY ANNA BROOKE CONSTANCE CALLAWAY, SARA LOUISE DANIS, JOYCE A. McKEAN JUDITH S. STARK (Assistants) Composed by National Geographic's Phototypographic Division HERMAN J.A.C. ARENS, Director ROBERT C. ELLIS, JR., Manager Printed, bound by R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., Chicago First printing 200,000 copies Copyright © 1963 National Geographic Society All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of the whole or any part of the contents without written permission is prohibited. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 63-20741 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S BARRY BISHOP (RIGHT) CARRIES THE SOCIETY FLAG TO THE TOP OF "UNCLIMBABLE" AMA DABLAM, PRELUDE TO HIS EVEREST TRIUMPH: WALTER ROMANES OVERLEAF: FROM THE DEPTHS OF A CENOTE AT DZIBILCHALTUN, IN YUCATAN, AN EXPEDITION DIVER BRINGS UP AN ANCIENT MAYA JAR: LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STAFF -4- |