[rollei_list] Re: Alfred Gregory...Summit photographs
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:51:08 -0300
Marc, this topic started on topic, it started in the old RUG as a
discussion about the use of a Rolleiflex TLR camera during the 1953
Expedition to Everest, I'll avoid to summarize the discussions points,
but each one knows what wrote and the messages are in the archives, at
least I have them.
Anyway I'd like to clarify other two points: Camp VIII was the Camp in
the South Col at 25,850 feet, the highest camp was Camp IX at about
27,900 feet, it was installed by Lowe, Gregory and Ang Nyma, from this
CIX Hillary and Tenzing launched the final assault to the summit, to
climb the lasts 1,100 feet.
I mentioned the photographs because the photographs were a significant
point for the expedition purposes, Edmund Hillary in the same chapter
16 "THE SUMMIT" writes that the more significant photograph he took in
the summit was that one about the North Face I mentioned in my
previous post.
Carlos
2010/3/15 Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> At 01:30 PM 3/15/2010, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>>Edmund Hillary wrote the Hunt's book chapter sixteen "THE SUMMIT",
>>Hillary comments "...It was 2.30 and we decided to camp here...We
>>estimated our height at 27,900 feet. Lowe, Gregory and Ang Nyma
>>dropped their loads on the site with relief. They were tired but well
>>satisfied with the height gained and to them must go a great deal of
>>the credit for the successful climb of the following day..."(page
>>199).
>>The book page 2 shows a very well printed color photograph -full page-
>>about Tenzing with oxygen mask in the Everest summit taken by Hillary,
>>"Plate 45" shows another photograph taken by Hillary using the Retina
>>that only could be taken from the Everest summit, you can see the
>>North Face, North Col, North Peak, Rongbuk glacier, East Rongbuk
>>Glacier and Rongbuk Valley, they needed more than the very significant
>>and symbolic Tenzing image in the summit to avoid any doubt about the
>>expedition success.
>
> Thank you. The quotation from Sir Edmund seems to clear up Gregory's
> presence at CVIII.
>
> I am not certain why you brought up the photographs. What was your point in
> doing so? I understand your suggestion that they took this picture to prove
> they were there, but, in those days, that was hardly necessary: no member
> of the Alpine Club would ever be accused of dishonesty! Sir Edmund stated
> that he made a number of pictures of the summit at the request of the
> geologists and also to see if there were traces of Mallory or Irvine.
>
> The Chinese were accused of falsifying their climb in 1960, and they did
> have pictures which were denounced as false. The man who had taught Mallory
> to rock climb, Irving, and Sir Percy Wyn-Harris (who had earned a share in
> the top altitude prize in 1933) proved through optical projection that the
> Chinese pictures could only have been taken from the final summit. But in
> 1953, the word of a British gentleman would have sufficed.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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