Title Alfred Gregory : photographs from Everest to Africa / Alfred Gregory

Published Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin Group (Australia), 2007

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Description xi, 210 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 x 32 cm Contents Foreword / Earl Carter -- Introduction -- Everest 1953: the first ascent -- The high world -- Blackpool -- Changing worlds -- Africa Summary In 1953 Alfred Gregory was chief photographer for the triumphant British team that took Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the summit of Everest. There he took spectacular photographs that record not only the human struggle to conquer the Himalaya but also the once-pristine beauty of the world's highest mountain Notes Includes index Subject Gregory, Alfred. SUBJECT Mount Everest Expedition (1953) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96120624 Mount Everest Expedition (1953) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96120624 -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001272 Subject Documentary photography. Mountaineering expeditions -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Pictorial works. Nature and civilization -- Pictorial works. Photography of mountains. SUBJECT Africa -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114129 Genre/Form Illustrated works. ISBN 9781920989613

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