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Record 18299

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'We were shocked and saddened to read in the newspapers of Lieutenant-Colonel H.T.Morshead's tragic death in Burma. The association of mountaineering in the past and mountaineering in the present is a very real one.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 11 Jun 1931
Country: India
Time: afternoon: rest day at camp
Place: other location: Camp 2 alt.approx 19,000ft on East Kamet Glacier, Garwhal Himalaya
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reading Group:Frank Smythe (team leader) and other (unspecified) members of 1931 Kamet Expedition
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 6 Jul 1900
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: mountaineer, writer, photographer
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: India
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 Members of Kamet Expedition
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: newspapers
Genre: Biography, Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
newspapers brought up mountain by runners from village of Joshimath

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18299  
Source - Print  
  Author: Frank Smythe
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Kamet Conquered : in The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 2000 (1932)
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 418
  Additional comments: Refers to Henry Treise Morshead, (1882?1931) Chief Surveyor on the 1921 Everest Reconnaissance Expedition, who in 1920 had been on an earlier expedition to Kamet. In 1929 he was posted to Burma as local Director of the Survey of India. and was mysteriously murdered there on May 17, 1931. Source: Royal Geographical Society [accessed 01/10/2008]

Citation: Frank Smythe, Kamet Conquered : in The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books (London, 2000 (1932)), p. 418, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18299, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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