AS REGARDS THE 1953 EDITION of Skuhra's book, published the year during which the summits of both Mount Everest and Nanga Parbat were finally reached, the answer is twofold. Expanded by accounts of the German 1939 Nanga Parbat reconnaissance, the 1936, 1938, and 1939 attempts on K2, and the successful 1950 ascent of Annapurna by a French expedition under the leadership of Maurice Herzog, the 1953 edition was cleansed almost completely of those passages and references that had identified—directly or indirectly—the five pre–Second World War Nanga Parbat expeditions as a German national enterprise inextricably linked to the larger fate of the German Volk, to its renewal as a nation in the years following the First World War. Removed also were the numerous textual (and visual) references to the support provided to these enterprises by National Socialist sports organizations and individuals such as Reichssportführer Hans von Tschammer und Osten. In doing so, Skuhra successfully frees the legacy of pre–Second World War Nanga Parbat expeditions from National Socialist contamination— at least on the surface. The fact, however, that most of Skuhra's original 1938 text remained unchanged in the 1953 edition meant that the “heroic” qualities associated with British, and especially German, mountaineers as discussed in connection with the 1938 edition—courage, tenacity, toughness, bravery, comradeship, the will to sacrifice (one's life)—would continue to dominate Skuhra's post–Second World War portrayal of high-altitude mountaineering to the German public and thereby perpetuate the very “values” that had formed the core of the National Socialists’ ideology. This observation is underscored by the fact that the highly militarized language of Skuhra's 1938 edition is only slightly tempered in the 1953 edition. The same overall assessment applies to the 1954 edition of Skuhra's book. The major changes in this edition are the inclusion of the British reconnaissance expeditions to Everest in 1950 and 1951 respectively, the Swiss attempt on Everest in 1952, and finally, the account of the British success on Everest in 1953. Included also is a brief discussion of the American 1953 expedition to K2.