Photographs of Swiss mountain scenery. Photographer: Mummery, Albert Frederick
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Eight snapshots of Swiss mountain scenery, originally contained in an envelope inscribed 'The only photographs (summer of 1894) Mummery ever took. J.W. Collie.' This presumably refers to the businessman and mountaineer Albert Frederick Mummery, who died on Nanga Parbat in the following year. All...
Members of the Spartak Alpine Club at the approach to the north-east wall of Tikhtingen, Caucasus. Photographer: Soviet Weekly
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Soviet Weekly' photograph, date stamped 27 March 1958. Typescript caption on reverse states that these climbers won first place in the technically-difficult climbing class.