Catalogue description Mountains 1927-28 [Geoffrey Winthrop Young]

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Details of 1922/C110A
Reference: 1922/C110A
Title: Mountains 1927-28 [Geoffrey Winthrop Young]
Description:

Album initially put together in the early 1920s, as Geoffrey Winthrop Young experimented with designs for an artificial leg suitable for climbing in. Photographs of climbing trips, newspaper cuttings, postcards, and correspondence with other people interested in his artificial leg design.Ascents made in the Alps, on the invented mountain peg leg:with some of the repercussions which it was hoped they would produce.

 

Author: YOUNG, Geoffrey Winthrop

Date: 1925-1952
Held by: Alpine Club Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 album
Physical condition: ms
Immediate source of acquisition:

Geoffrey Winthrop Young bequest

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