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KASHMIR AND EVEREST - MOUNTAINEERING SOMERVELL (THOMAS HOWARD) Series of 11 views of the high mountains of Kashmir, and one of the Everest range, c.1933; and one other gelatin silver print captioned "Scarfell 1912", loose in envelope addressed to Somervell, marked in pencil "Kashmir 1933" (13) image 1
KASHMIR AND EVEREST - MOUNTAINEERING SOMERVELL (THOMAS HOWARD) Series of 11 views of the high mountains of Kashmir, and one of the Everest range, c.1933; and one other gelatin silver print captioned "Scarfell 1912", loose in envelope addressed to Somervell, marked in pencil "Kashmir 1933" (13) image 2
KASHMIR AND EVEREST - MOUNTAINEERING SOMERVELL (THOMAS HOWARD) Series of 11 views of the high mountains of Kashmir, and one of the Everest range, c.1933; and one other gelatin silver print captioned "Scarfell 1912", loose in envelope addressed to Somervell, marked in pencil "Kashmir 1933" (13) image 3
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KASHMIR AND EVEREST - MOUNTAINEERING
SOMERVELL (THOMAS HOWARD) Series of 11 views of the high mountains of Kashmir, and one of the Everest range, c.1933; and one other (13)

2 March 2022, 13:00 GMT
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KASHMIR AND EVEREST - MOUNTAINEERING

SOMERVELL (THOMAS HOWARD) Series of 11 views of the high mountains of Kashmir, and one of the Everest range, gelatin silver prints, typically 205 x 390mm., Everest 130 x 208mm., c.1933; and one other gelatin silver print captioned "Scarfell 1912", loose in envelope addressed to Somervell, marked in pencil "Kashmir 1933" (13)

Footnotes

T.H. Somervell (1890-1975) was a distinguished mountaineer, selected for both the 1922 and 1924 Everest Expeditions, and making extended excursions around the Kangchenjunga massif, and northern India in the 1920 and 30s. In later life he was Vice-President of the Himalayan Club (1942-43), and President of the Alpine Club (1962-65). See Somervell, Some Minor Expeditions in the Himalaya, published in Himalayan Journal, vol. 13, 1946, in which he describes many of the scenes depictednin these photographs.

Captioned images include; "Nagar Parbut from Rampur"; "Nanga Parbut from 1700ft Peak"; "Up to the Burzil Pass"; "The "Top Rocks of Mahaded[v]"; "Winter Snow in the Kashmir Valley"; "The Burxil Pass, Leading over the Himalaya"; "Some 2500ft. peaks, from above. Everest".

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