Summit Collection

Mallory and Irvine at the Second Step, Everest, 1924
Illustration showing an artists impression of George Leigh Mallory (top) and Andrew Irvine climbing up the Second Step on Everest, 1924

Hillary and Tensing Bhutia conquering Everest
Front cover of The Illustrated London News showing Sir Edmund Hillary together with Sherpa Tensing Bhutia reaching the summit of Mount Everest on May 29 1953

Everest 1924 Group
1924 EVEREST EXPEDITION Colonel Norton, the leader (3rd from left) between Irving (L) and Mallory (R) the two climbers who died near the summit

Nepal / Everest April 1933
The first aerial photograph of Mt Everests summit

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

The summit, Ben Nevis, Fort William, Scotland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

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

Majorca, Spain - Town of Soller and the Puig Major
View down to the town of Soller and up to the distant form of the Puig Major, the highest peak on the Spanish island of Majorca. Date: circa 1930s

Ascent Mont Blanc - 4
THE ASCENT OF MONT BLANC Reaching the summit: during this final stage, each step takes ten minutes Date: 1855

St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall, England. Edward the Confessor granted it to the Benedictine monks, who built an Abbey and a Priory on the summit

Climbers on Chomolhari, Bhutan, May 1937
Photograph showing two climbers on the 24, 000 ft. Himalayan mountain Chomolhari, near Phari Dzong, Bhutan, 20th May 1937. The photograph, taken by F. Spencer Chapman, shows C.E

German Mountain Railway
This steam train carries tourists up the Brocken, in the Harz mountains, once the haunt of witches (but they had to rely on their broomsticks to take them to the summit)

Mauritius - Pieter Both Mountain
Pieter Both - the second highest mountain of Mauritius - named after Pieter Both, the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Date: circa 1910s

Wallis Simpson
A glamorous studio portrait of Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, later Duchess of Windsor (1896-1986), American socialite. Born in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, she divorced her second husband

Brazil - Rio de Janeiro - The Statue of Christ the Redeemer at the summit of Mount Corcovado. Created by French sculptor Paul Landowski

Observatory on the summit of Ben Nevis, Scotland
Observatory on the summit of Ben Nevis, Fort William, Scotland Date: 1908

Switzerland Matterhorn
The peak of the Matterhorn seen from Zermatt : it was first climbed by a party led by Edward Whymper, who reached the summit on 14 July 1865

The Barbarine - first climbed 1905 - Germany
The Barbarine - the best-known, free-standing rock formation in the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. The pinnacle is the symbol of Saxon Switzerland

Conference table, Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine
View of the conference table in the Livadia (Livadija) Palace, Yalta, Ukraine, where the historic February 1945 meeting took place between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

Conference table and photos, Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine
View of a conference table, and two photos on the walls, in the Livadia (Livadija) Palace, Yalta, Ukraine, where the historic February 1945 meeting took place between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

Skiers - Riffelboden - view of Matterhorn - nr. Zermatt, Switzerland Date: circa late 1930s

PORTUGAL. Lisbon. Germanys Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) arrives prior to the NAC (North Atlantic Council) meeting on November 19, 2010 in Lisbon

PORTUGAL. Lisbon. Lithuanias President Dalia Grybauskaite smiles as she arrives prior to the NAC (North Atlantic Council) meeting on November 19, 2010 in Lisbon

Windermere, from summit, Lake District, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Ascent Mont Blanc - 2
THE ASCENT OF MONT BLANC Leaving the Grands Mulets, the climbers separate, only the more experienced going on to the summit

New River Head
In 1609 a scheme to bring much needed water into London from wells in Hertfordshire was designed by a Mr Hugh Myddleton. His plan was to end his New River just below the summit of Islington Hill

Alison Jane Hargreaves - British mountain climber
" Alison Jane Hargreaves 1962 - 1995 was a British mountain climber. Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team

Mont Blanc Massif - French Alps - Chamonix - The Plan Praz Terrace (2064m altitude.) Date: circa 1910s

Laramie, Wyoming, USA - Black Bear Waffles
Summit Tavern on the Lincoln Highway (elevation 8835ft) - Laramie, Wyoming, USA - Black Bear Waffles - a Local celebrity! Date: circa 1930s

The summit of The Lawley, in the Shropshire Hills, England. The image of the crow represents an icon of the Corbet family coat of arms

Switzerland - View toward the Matterhorn. Date: circa 1910s

Mount Pilatus summit, Switzerland

Summit of Mount Snowdon, Wales

Summit of Mount Snowdon

Summit of Mount Snowdon, Wales - early 1900s

Summit of Mount Snowdon, Wales, Victorian period

Summit of Mount Snowdon, Victorian period

Summit of Mount Snowden Victorian period

Summit HM-5 NX25332 (msn 1), designed by Howell Miller to use the Vidal bonded plastic-plywood process, seen on 27 June 1942

The Puy Mary, Massif Central, Cantal, France
The Puy Mary - a summit in the mounts of Cantal in Massif Central in France. It is classified as a Grand National Site in France. Nearly 500, 000 visitors come to this site every year

Summit and Mountain Railway, Snowdon, Snowdonia, Wales
Summit and Mountain Railway, Mount Snowdon, Snowdonia, North Wales - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Summit of Tangla mountain range (Tanggula Tangla, Tanglha, or Dangla), from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside

La Basilique du Sacre Coeur de Montmartre, Paris, France Date: circa 1920s

Thomas Cook Vesuvius Postcard pictures & map
Cook had the Funicular built for their growing tours. Travellers rushed to the kiosk at the top to buy and then post right there a postcard

Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and others, Geneva
Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and others, signing a peace agreement at the conclusion of a summit in Geneva, Switzerland

Dwight D Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev
The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ((1894-1971, right) with the American President Dwight D "Ike" Eisenhower (1890-1969, 34th US President 1953-1961), during a summit meeting in the USA

Saluting the dawn from the summit of the Tower Date: July 1905

Watching a firework display to celebrate the Franco-Russian festivities, from the summit of the Tower Date: 1893

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