Mountaineer Collection

1922 British Mt Everest Expedition - Norton and Mallory
1922 British Mount Everest Expedition - Major Edward " Teddy" F. Norton (1884-1954) and George Herbert Leigh Mallory (1886-1924) at nearly 27, 000 feet. Date: 1922

Edmund Hillary & Tensing
Sir Edmund Hillary with Tenzing Norgay after their successful attempt to scale Mount Everest in Nepal on 29th May 1953. The legendary mountaineer died in January 2008

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

Mount Everest Expedition 1924
Mount Everest Expedition, 1924. Led by General The Hon. C. B. Bruce C.B. A view of Mount Everest from the Base Camp in the Rongbuk Valley, Tibet. Sent (and signed on front) by J. B. L

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

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

Ecuador Chimborazo
Chimborazo and Carihuairazo, pictured by Whymper who was a noted mountaineer as well as artist

Marie Marvingt (1875 - 1963), French athlete, mountaineer, aviator, and journalist. Date: 1910

Albert Richard Smith, 19th century English author, entertainer, explorer and mountaineer

Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947), poet, mountaineer, occultist, named by his mother The Great Beast

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

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

Mer de Glace, Chamonix, Victorian period

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

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

Cartoon, Unemployment Mountain -- LLOYD GEORGE has his attention drawn to the scale of the unemployment problem. Date: 1921

Manchu mandarin and Miao mountaineer, China
Manchu mandarin in fur coat, beard and hat with peacock feather, and Miao mountaineer from southern China

Venetian mountaineer
Costume, Venetian mountaineer. 19th century

Venetian female mountaineer
Costume, Venetian female mountaineer. 19th century

German Mountaineer hitting the heights of satisfaction
Thats the Limit !! As good as it gets!! A german Mountaineer has reached the peak of a high summit, he is sunbathing and his packed lunch is VERY satisfactory. Date: circa 1930s

CLIMBING GLACIAL ICE
A mountaineer climbing glacial ice with his pickaxe, in the highlands of the Mount Baker National Forest Park, Washington State, USA. Date: 1930s

1922 British Mount Everest Expedition - the first mountaineering expedition with the express aim of making the first ascent of the worlds highest peak

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

Scawfell Lake District climbers Victorian period

1922 British Mt Everest Expedition - Rongbuk Monastery
1922 British Mount Everest Expedition - Rongbuk Monastery (12 miles from Everest, just about visible in the distance). The Rongbuk Monastery was the home of the Panchen Lama. Date: 1922

Gorner Glacier, Mont-Rose - Switzerland - Mountaineer
The Gorner Glacier (Gornergletscher) - a valley glacier found on the west side of the Monte Rosa massif close to Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s

Gorner Glacier, Seracs - Switzerland - Mountaineer
The Gorner Glacier (Gornergletscher) - a valley glacier found on the west side of the Monte Rosa massif close to Zermatt in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Date: circa 1920s

Crossing a Crevasse - Climbing Mont Blanc, France
Crossing a Crevasse with ladders - Climbing Mont Blanc, France. Date: circa 1905

Ascent of Mont Blanc in the Alps between France and Italy. 1834

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

American Interior 1886
An interior view of a Kentucky Mountaineers home. Showing a lady spinning and a large open fire with brewing pot. Date: 1886

GESNER (1516 - 1565)
CONRAD GESNER Swiss naturalist, medic, scholar, bibliographer and writer on Greek and Latin, zoology, the sciences and mountaineering. Date: 1516 - 1565

Ffestiniog Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotive Mountaineer, Dduallt Mountain, Dolgellau, near Snowdonia, Merionethshire, Wales. Date: 1960s

Rome, Italy - Mer de Glace
Hand coloured. A snowy glacier in a mountainous area (northern slopes of Mont Blanc, France). A mountaineer stands in the foreground.. Part of Box 196, Rome, Boswell collection. Silde number 9

Mountaineering in the Tyrol
A lady mountaineer, assisted by local guides, turns a corner while climbing in the Tyrol Date: September 1886

Albert Smith
ALBERT RICHARD SMITH writer and mountaineer Date: 1816 - 1860

Courmayeur, Italy - The Botanical Garden of
The Henry Botanical Garden at Plan Gorret, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy. Joseph- Marie Henry (1870-1947) was born in Courmayeur the son of a Mountain Guide of Mont Blanc

1922 British Mt Everest Expedition - Shekar Monastery
1922 British Mount Everest Expedition - Shekar Monastery Date: 1922

Alpinism at the beggining of 20th c

Mountaineering in Canada
Three young men mountaineering in Canada. Date: 1930s

Monte Lyskamm
A mountaineer, perched on the snow covered summit of Monte Lyskamm, Cervinia, Italian Alps. Date: 1930s

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

Ice Grotto - Eiger Glacier
An Ice grotto cut into glacier on the lower slopes of the Eiger Mountain, Switzerland

Dramatic Mountain Rescue
A dramatic mountain rescue

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