[rollei_list] Re: A TLR Rolleiflex in the Everest
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:18:55 -0400
At 09:14 PM 10/26/2009, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
the BBC has produced
>an excellent documentary on the 1953 expedition thanks to Tom Stobart
>images mostly and BTW the images in the RGS site don't lie.
I am becoming worked up here. The RGS is a pack
of shit when it comes to working with the history
of this. They have their version. They just
want MONEY. Beyond that, they are dishonest and
disingenuous. I have dealt with them
directly. Do so yourself. Trust not a word they
say. They want MONEY. Discussing history with
them results in a request for how large your
grant is. This a horrid organization which is
simply mercenary in its nature. Younghusband is
undoubtedly spinning in his grave in disgust.
I do not give a damn for the BBC or for the
RGS. Why do you continue to refuse to read the
recorded history? WRITTEN accounts matter. TV
shows -- well, you might regard DESPERATE
HOUSEWIVES as having some historic content but I
do not. We are still waiting for a real TV show
of historic content. I listen to Big Band on the
radio. It is a lot more accurate than anything on TV.
READ the record and converse with the scholars
and quit this twitting about BBC specials and RGS
web shows. Do the basic work I have done. Read
the books and contemplate them. Think about them
for a year, and then let us talk. In the
meantime, you sound like an ill-advised person on
a mission. We have a rude phrase in the US for
that sort of a person, and you are better than
that. I would suggest that you let me send you
the bibliography I have to date, and then read
all of these works and then tell me that what I
have said is in error. Er, no ... I have been
studying this a long time. I doubt that you want
to devote the energy I have devoted to the
Everest Expeditions, but I would urge you to do
so and then we can talk. I am slowly working up
to writing an official history of these
I am sorry, Carlos. We have argued over your
worship of Nippon Kogagku and so forth. I was
correct there but you adamantly refused to
acknowledge the historic record. And now you are
doing the same on Everest. Go read for
yourself.. Carlos, you are a wonderful person on
this list. But learn the historical record of things that happened.
As it stands, Carlos swore there was an official
Rollei taken high in '53. I proved that it was a
private Rolleiflex. Carlos will win this exchange. Why?
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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