Climber Collection

Annie Peck masked and dressed for climbing
Annie Smith Peck (October 19, 1850 July 18, 1935), American mountaineer pictured in her climbing outfit at the time she had scaled Mount Huascan

Dorothy Pilley, English climber in Glacier National Park
Dorothy Pilley Richards (1894 - 1986) was a prominent female mountaineer. She began climbing in Wales and joined the Fell and Rock Climbing Club

Hillary and Tensing on Mount Everest
Hillary and Tensing nearing the summit of Mount Everest. Date: 1953

George Leigh Mallory (1886-1924)
Photographic portrait of George Leigh Mallory, the British climber who took part in three expeditions to Everest in the 1920 s, pictured in 1924

Poster for Ovo Sports Food
Advertising poster for Ovo Sport, a special food developed to provide nourishment during sport and training

Poster advertising Mount Cook, New Zealand. Three travellers enjoy the healthy mountain air

Lady climber crossing a crevasse in the Alps, Victorian period

Lyreshead lizard, Lyriocephalus scutatus, and brown tree climber, Uranoscodon superciliosus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Africa - Coconut picker high up a palm tree. Date: circa 1970s

Africa - Coconut picker high up a palm tree. Date: circa 1970s

Cairn at the summit of Scafell Pike, Lake District, Victorian period Date: circa late 19th century

Chile nettle, Caiophora lateritia. Native to South America, raised in Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds sent by Scottish botanist James Tweedie from Tucuman, Argentina

Convolvulus oleifolius var. oleifolius. Narrow-leaved convolvulus, Convolvulus linearis

Alison Jane Hargreaves - British mountain climber
" Alison Jane Hargreaves 1962 - 1995 was a British mountain climber

Bert Bissell MBE - mountain climber and peace campaigner
Bert Bissell MBE, 1902?1998, was a mountain climber and peace campaigner. Mr Bissell led a pilgrimage from the Dudley Bible Class to the summit of Ben Nevis on VJ Day in 1945

Crevasse, Mont Blanc Date: late 19th century

Climbers (tourists) on Mont Blanc, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Glacier - Mount Sir Donald - Canada early 1900s

Climbing the Bossons Glacier, Mont Blanc, Victorian period

On the Upper Glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, Victorian period

Cutting an Ice Grotto, Glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, Victorian period

A Mountain Guide, Grindelwald, Switzerland, Victorian period

On the Eiger Glacier, Switzerland, Victorian period

A porter on a glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, Victorian period

Tourist climbers, Grindelwald, Switzerland, Victorian period

Tourist climbers of the Mer de Glace, Mont Blanc, Victorian period

Climbing the Matterhorn

Climbing The Needle Great Gable Lake District Victorian period

Climbing Skew Gill Victorian period Date: 19th century

Climbing Scawfell Hand Traverse Victorian period Date: 19th century

Climbing Scawfell Deep Ghyll Victorian period Date: 19th century

Climbing Scawfell Pinnacle Victorian period Date: 19th century

Climbing Great Gable Eagle's Nest Arete Victorian period Date: 19th century

Climbing in the Mauvais Pass, France, Victorian period

Tourists and guides on the Mer de Glace, France, Victorian period

Crossing a crevasse, Mont Blanc, Victorian period

Climbing Great Gable in the Lake District, Victorian period

Hill Climbers, Keswick, Lake District, Cumbria, England
Hill Climbers (Abraham Brothers - George and Ashley), climbing near Keswick, Lake District, Cumbria, England

Mont Blanc
A climber on the arete du Rochefort, Mont Blanc. The image is reproduced from a book of photographic studies entitled Haute Montagne'. Date: circa 1931

CLIMBING IS DANGEROUS
Pressed against a sheer rockface, buffeted by a howling gale, a climber gains a vivid insight into the narrow gap betwixt life and death. Date: late 19th century

Diagrams showing air fighting techniques 1939
Set of diagrams detailing the techniques of fighter planes, taking into account their increased speed

Cobaea penduliflora, ornamental climber from Mexico. Named for Father Barnabe Cobo

Royal purple gaybine, Pharbitis ostrina, from Cuba

Orange climber, Toddalia asiatica
Orange climber or koka-toddali, Toddalia aculeata. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Mountain Climber Date: 1948

MAN CLIMBS STEEPLY 1930S
Held tightly by safety ropes, a climber progresses up a sheer rockface. Date: 1930s

HELPING FALLEN CLIMBER
A climber who has fallen into a crevasse is helped out by two mountaineers. Date: circa 1930

CLIMBER ON ROCKFACE
Making his way up a sheer rockface, a climber considers his next move. Date: 1930s

Mountain Climbing - Alps - Chamonix, France. Date: 1920s

Mado Minty 1913
Mado Minty, in theatrical spiders costume in Come Over Here, appearing in The London Opera House and also photographed in her private life. 1913

England, Lake District, Cumbria - Bleabury Tarn, Crummock Water - climber

Lonicera caprifolium, honeysuckle
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay
TENZING NORGAY (1914 - 1986), who, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, scaled the summit of Mount Everest on 29th May 1953. Date: 1953

Andrew Irvine (1902-1924)
Photographic portrait of Andrew Comyn Irvine, the British climber, pictured in 1924. George Leigh Mallory and Irvine were last seen by N.E

Rock climbing at Bosigran, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

William Longman
WILLIAM LONGMAN Publisher and, in his leisure hours, Alpine climber. Date: 1813 - 1877

Calamus rotang, rattan palm

Andrew Irvine on Everest, 1924
Photograph of Andrew Comyn Irvine (1902-24), the British climber, working on an oxygen bottle in the Everest Expedition camp, 1924

Oberammergau, Germany viewed from the Laberjoch
Oberammergau, Germany viewed from the slopes of the Laberjoch (1600+m above!!!). Date: 1930s

William Martin Conway
WILLIAM MARTIN CONWAY Art critic and mountain climber. Date: 1856 - 1937

Sir Robert Christison
SIR ROBERT CHRISTISON Scottish medical, specialising in jurisprudence - he was an expert witness in the Burke & Hare and other trials - and in toxicology. A keen climber. Date: 1797 - 1882

Jacques Balmat, Climber and Mountaineer
JACQUES BALMAT ((17621834)) French climber, the first to attain the summit of Mont Blanc. Date: circa 1800

Rock climbing near Porthcurno, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Strychnos ignatii, St. Ignatiuss bean
Plate 46 from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Ipomoea quamoclit, Cypress vine
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

Alpinism at the beggining of 20th c

Rock Climber
Rock climbing. Date: 1960s

Snowdonia Mountaineer
A mountaining climbing up a rock face, Snowdonia, Wales. Date: 1960s

Girl Rock Climber
This woman rock climber doesn t look very safe as she straddles two rocks! Date: 1930s

Austrian Alps Climb C20
A climber stands at the summit of the Glocknerspitze, in the Austrian Alps. Date: early 20th century

Climber Uses First Aid
The prudent climber - and Germans are ALWAYS prudent - carries a first-aid kit with him in case of accident, for accidents may befall anyone, even a German

Climbing Great Gable
A rock climber on Great Gable, Cumberland, England

Dog Rescues Climber
A Saint Bernard rescues an English mountain climber who has suffered an accident in the Mont Saint-Bernard pass

Sport / Climbing / Peck
ANNIE PECK The American climber who attempted many dangerous ascents in the Andes

Franciscea Etcive Floral
Franciscea Pohliana & Tropaeolum Brickwoodii, apparently?

Lady Climber in the Alps
A lady climber and her companions negotiate a tricky corner in the Tirolean Alps

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