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  • Pen-y-Gwryd, Wales: a mountaineering party seated outside Penygwryd Hotel, eight men, six women. Photograph by G.D. and A. Abraham, 1897.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. As N0022572C. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres) under snow. The climate in the Khumbu can be harsh and unpredictable. The tents in the foreground belong to a European mountaineering expedition. The yaks are unperturbed.
  • Nepal; Sherpa porters in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpa porters prepare for a trekking expedition organised for a party of western vacationists. They will guide, bring up the rear, cook and strike camp. Such expeditions pay cash wages far in excess of anything Sherpas could hope to earn elsewhere and such income is invested in loans, cattle, land, tradeable articles and jewellery. Until the influx of mountaineering expeditions following Hillary's Everest climb (1953), western medicine was unknown in the Khumbu. Distribution of mainly analgesic and antibiotic drugs has led to misuse.
  • Mountains. Oil painting.
  • Mountains. Oil painting.
  • Tharp Mountain Girdlestone. Photograph.
  • Tharp Mountain Girdlestone. Photograph.
  • Mountainous view of Sanatorium Bad Suderode in the Harz mountains, Germany. Reproduction of a drawing.
  • Table Bay from the Mountain
  • Berberis aquifolium (Oregon, Mountain, Grape)
  • Cavalry passing mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Shooting skirmish below mountains, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • General view of the Culebra Mountain
  • Four ibexes or mountain goats. Watercolour.
  • Welsh Mountain rams: excessive pastern slope.
  • Cavalry drill in the mountains, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Menstrual blood, artwork title "Small Red Mountain"
  • Transporting artillery through a mountain pass, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Cavalry marching through a mountain river, Afghanistan. Watercolour.
  • Bagh-e Babor on the western slope of mountain
  • Bagh-e Babor on the western slope of mountain
  • Two nilgai standing in a mountainous landscape. Coloured lithograph.
  • A yak grazing in a mountainous landscape. Coloured lithograph.
  • Geography: comparative heights of mountains in South America. Aquatint, 1818.
  • Mountain landscape view of Bagnères de Luchon. Coloured lithograph, 1853.
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: 'Mountain root' and elbow boils
  • Kashmir: a mountain valley and forest. Photograph by Samuel Bourne.
  • Geology: comparative heights of mountains. Coloured engraving by S. Hall, 1817.
  • Mountain side view of the Terrace-cisterns at Aden. Wood engraving.
  • A wolf in a mountainous landscape. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.