Genre: Landscape Photography View of Calvert's party at the head of the pass: 'Leaving the river, we at once began to ascend over rough loose stones up a nullah, and crawling round east-north-east finally after 4½ hours weary struggle over 5 miles of very bad ground, reached the crest of the L...
Ponbo of Chocho [at Chocho Farsa]. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of the Ponbo with a youth, presumably his son, standing beside him. 'This place contains some 8 black tents, including that of the Chocho Ponbo, who lives here all the year round…Chocho Farsa is not marked on the map at all (which at lea...
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking upstream towards the head of the pass. This is presumably the location described as follows in Calvert's report: 'Our route passed at once into a narrow ravine where the ponies had to struggle amidst boulders for nearly 2 miles before finding easier gro...
Genre: Landscape Photography View of Calvert's camp in the snow. 'August 13th. — This morning we found an inch and a half of snow on the ground and more falling, it was clearly inadvisable to march upstream to the foot of the pass into deeper snow, so I decided to remain here…However, the day w...
Near Giugti La, 21-8-06. Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the snowbound head of the pass. 'August 21st. — A steady ascent up the nullah for six miles to the crest of the Giugti-La:— the map shows this as 19,500 feet but my aneroid registered 19,625 feet. The ascent was fairly gradual except the last qu...