Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. Black and white image of a valley full of small peaks of ice.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. Black and white image of a path with cattle on it leading to native dwellings.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. Black and white image of a mountainous area.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. Black and white close up image of a seated man, sporting a beard.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. Black and white image of two men (seated) and five native men (four seated, one standing) with a tent in the background.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. Black and white image of a rocky path between two walls of ice, with mountains in the background.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. Black and white image of eighteen Tibetan nuns (seven seated, eleven standing behind) in plain dark robes and with intricate hairstyles.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. Black and white image of Rongbuk Glacier and Mount Everest with the locations of camps marked.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. The image is a rear view of two mountaineers climbing a snowy-covered ridge, wearing breathing apparatus and carrying ice pikes.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. Black and white image of large peaks of ice with a cave at the bottom.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. The image shows a large stone fortification, perhaps a monastery, built into a rocky outcrop.

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Glass slide from Major Richard William George Hingston’s travels to the Himalayas and Mount Everest, 1920‐1924. Black and white image of a group of men standing beside an ice river surrounded by ice peaks, with a mountain slope in the background.

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