Slopes Collection (page 6)

Bulgaria - Borovets - bringing home fruit
Bulgaria - Borovets - Women return home with baskets of berries. Borovets is now a popular Bulgarian ski resort

Toda People - Ooty, India
Toda People and their distinctive huts from Ooty, short for Ootacamund (sometimes abbreviated to Udhagai Tamil). A town and municipality (and the district capital)

Tatler Winter Sports Number 1954
Lovely 1950s illustration by David Judd for the front cover of The Tatlers Winter Sports Number, showing a lone female skiier arriving at a quaint looking chalet on the ski slopes

Ski-ing streamline
A contrasting ski outfit from Jaeger. The tough looking, loose-fitting wool sweater, with its ribbed knit and roll collar, and the tailored ski-pants of black barathea produce an ensemble that

Skiing in St Moritz
Robert Sweeney; the Hon. Mrs Janet Campbell, Lord Beaverbrooks daughter; and Sir Philip Sassoon on the ski slopes at St Moritz, Switzerland

Hermit living on Mount Vesuvius
Highly likely to be two slices short of a toaster, this hermit has decided to live on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in Italy!

Christmassy Ski Outfit
A Christmassy young woman dressed in a Santa Clause style skiing outfit. Behind her a fellow skier is pulled up the slopes behind a horse

On The Slopes At Sunset
An winter scene showing silhouettes of skiers skiing downhill

Winter lake with mountains with Snowy Owl
A view toward a snow-capped peak across a cold wintery lake. A snowy Owl has been added to th border framing the scene. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Mountain farm in County Mayo, Ireland
Sketch from Ireland showing the harrowing difficulty of cultivating on a mountain farm in County Mayo. A peasant man and woman use a horse in their attempts to plough the rocky slopes

Sir Henry Morton Stanley and his followers hauling canoes up
Engraving showing the local followers of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) hauling their canoes up the slopes around the Inkisi Falls, during his 1874 expedition to Central Africa

Welsh Mountain Scenery
This wonderful North Welsh mountain scene was taken from near the summit of Snowdon. Note the mountain railway winding up the steep slopes

Montmartre Defences
The Communards establish their position on the slopes of the Butte de Montmartre where Sacre-Coeur stands today

Israel Mount Hermon
Located on the Lebanon border, the southern slopes are under Israeli control

Social / Romania Children
Two young children collect flowers on the high slopes of a mountain in Romania

Up Vesuvius by Rail
Negotiating the lava flow on the upper slopes of Vesuvius was an exhausting business until this funicular was constructed in the 1880s, commemorated in popular song

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