Catalogue description Journals 1939 - 1958 [A.D.M. Cox]

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Details of 1922/D81
Reference: 1922/D81
Title: Journals 1939 - 1958 [A.D.M. Cox]
Description:

Series Title: Original Diaries

 

Detailed journals of climbing holidays in the Alps, including the 1947 holiday in which two climbing companions, John Jenkins and Herbert ("Nully") Kretschmer were killed on a descent of Mont Blanc by the Brenva route. Also a journal of the 1957 expedition to Machapuchare in 1957. Cox failed to summit by about 150 ft.

 

Contains: Alps: Dauphine 1938; Zermatt 1946; Mont Blanc area 1947 (the accident on the Brenva). Piece Ref: 1922/D81/1.

 

Author: COX, A.D.M.

 

Places: Alps
Date: 1939-1958
Held by: Alpine Club Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: Notebooks
Physical condition: ms

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