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HIMALAYAN EXPEDITIONS, 1930s
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HIMALAYAN EXPEDITIONS, 1930s
A Gangtok visitor's book, containing autograph inscriptions and signatures, of members of Himalayan climbing expeditions, 1926-1940, some addressed to 'Madame et Monsieur Dudley', 41 pages, 135 x 174mm. Including: A. Ropiteau (1927), inscriptions in Tibetan, signed Tashi Namgyal, and Kunzang Dechken (1926), the English mountaineer Gertrude Emily Benham (1929), members of both DEUTSCHE HIMALAYA EXPEDITIONS of 1929 and 1931, including its leader, Paul Bauer (the first expedition reached 7,400m on the northeast spur of Kangchenjunga before being turned back by a storm, the second expedition also failing to reach the summit); members of the INTERNATIONAL HIMALAYA EXPEDITION, 1930, including George Dyhrenfurth, Francis S. Smythe (who published his account, The Kangchenjunga Adventure in the same year), the Austrian Erwin Schneider and the German Uli Wieland; I[rving] Baird, from the British-American Himalayan Expedition of 1930-31; the German pilot, Elly Beinhorn (1932, with an accompanying sketch of an aeroplane; Beinhorn had become the second woman to fly from Europe to Australia the previous year); Captain A[ntonio] Zetto (signed 'Globe-trotter', 1931, the author of Globe Trotting. A Ten Year's Walk); the French Indologist Alain Danielou and the Swiss photographer, Raymond Burnier (1932); P.H. Dupuis (1932); and members of the MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION 1933, including Crawford, Brocklebank, Wager and Longland, 1936 and 1938, including Smythe, Shipton and Warren; the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition (1933), members of the Everest Reconnaissance Expedition, 1935, the Nanga Parbat Expedition (1937); the scholar of Oriental cultures, Giuseppe Tucci (1937), and the writer Maud Parrish (1940).
To the east of the hill station Gangtok, capital of the former Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, rise the peaks of the Himalayan range which includes Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain. In the 1930s, C. E. Dudley was General Secretary to the Chogyal.
A Gangtok visitor's book, containing autograph inscriptions and signatures, of members of Himalayan climbing expeditions, 1926-1940, some addressed to 'Madame et Monsieur Dudley', 41 pages, 135 x 174mm. Including: A. Ropiteau (1927), inscriptions in Tibetan, signed Tashi Namgyal, and Kunzang Dechken (1926), the English mountaineer Gertrude Emily Benham (1929), members of both DEUTSCHE HIMALAYA EXPEDITIONS of 1929 and 1931, including its leader, Paul Bauer (the first expedition reached 7,400m on the northeast spur of Kangchenjunga before being turned back by a storm, the second expedition also failing to reach the summit); members of the INTERNATIONAL HIMALAYA EXPEDITION, 1930, including George Dyhrenfurth, Francis S. Smythe (who published his account, The Kangchenjunga Adventure in the same year), the Austrian Erwin Schneider and the German Uli Wieland; I[rving] Baird, from the British-American Himalayan Expedition of 1930-31; the German pilot, Elly Beinhorn (1932, with an accompanying sketch of an aeroplane; Beinhorn had become the second woman to fly from Europe to Australia the previous year); Captain A[ntonio] Zetto (signed 'Globe-trotter', 1931, the author of Globe Trotting. A Ten Year's Walk); the French Indologist Alain Danielou and the Swiss photographer, Raymond Burnier (1932); P.H. Dupuis (1932); and members of the MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION 1933, including Crawford, Brocklebank, Wager and Longland, 1936 and 1938, including Smythe, Shipton and Warren; the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition (1933), members of the Everest Reconnaissance Expedition, 1935, the Nanga Parbat Expedition (1937); the scholar of Oriental cultures, Giuseppe Tucci (1937), and the writer Maud Parrish (1940).
To the east of the hill station Gangtok, capital of the former Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, rise the peaks of the Himalayan range which includes Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain. In the 1930s, C. E. Dudley was General Secretary to the Chogyal.
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