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A fine collection of vintage prints by Noel, the official photographer of the 1922 and 1924 Everest expeditions. The subjects include landscape, the expedition camps on approach to Everest, views of Mount Everest, and portraits of expedition members including the acting leader Lt. Col. E.F. Norton, Bruce, Hazard, Somervell, ‘Noel cinema shooting’, ‘Survivors of the 1924 expedition’, sherpas, and others.
John Noel led an unauthorised expedition into Tibet in 1913 in an attempt to chart the route to Everest and became the first European to get within forty miles of the mountain before he was turned back by Tibetan forces. In 1919 after active war service he presented his findings to the Royal Geographical Society and a reconnaissance expedition was mounted in 1921 which he was invited to join but he was unable to get leave from the army. In order to join the 1922 expedition Noel resigned his army commission and joined as official photographer, producing moving and still pictures. For the 1924 expedition Noel undertook to raise £8000 and to pay his own expenses and in return was granted copyright on all photographic material. He aimed to recover his costs through the exhibition of film and selling of postcards and prints of the expedition. He established a photographic laboratory in Darjeeling where photos taken on the expedition were developed and then distributed (via runners and then the Indian postal service) to the worldwide press. Noel took various still and movie cameras, 14 in all, some modified for use on the mountain. He established his highest working vantage point on the mountain at the Eagle’s Nest, at 22,000 feet, three miles way from and with a good view of the summit. He received the last communication made by Mallory, indicating where Noel should look for him and Irvine as they set out on their fatal assault on the summit.
For Noel’s work see S. Noel, Everest Pioneer, The Photographs of Captain John Noel, Stroud, 2003, and https://www.mounteverest.uk.com/mount_everest/file/gallery.php
John Noel led an unauthorised expedition into Tibet in 1913 in an attempt to chart the route to Everest and became the first European to get within forty miles of the mountain before he was turned back by Tibetan forces. In 1919 after active war service he presented his findings to the Royal Geographical Society and a reconnaissance expedition was mounted in 1921 which he was invited to join but he was unable to get leave from the army. In order to join the 1922 expedition Noel resigned his army commission and joined as official photographer, producing moving and still pictures. For the 1924 expedition Noel undertook to raise £8000 and to pay his own expenses and in return was granted copyright on all photographic material. He aimed to recover his costs through the exhibition of film and selling of postcards and prints of the expedition. He established a photographic laboratory in Darjeeling where photos taken on the expedition were developed and then distributed (via runners and then the Indian postal service) to the worldwide press. Noel took various still and movie cameras, 14 in all, some modified for use on the mountain. He established his highest working vantage point on the mountain at the Eagle’s Nest, at 22,000 feet, three miles way from and with a good view of the summit. He received the last communication made by Mallory, indicating where Noel should look for him and Irvine as they set out on their fatal assault on the summit.
For Noel’s work see S. Noel, Everest Pioneer, The Photographs of Captain John Noel, Stroud, 2003, and https://www.mounteverest.uk.com/mount_everest/file/gallery.php