Record Number: 18299

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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

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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

Members of Kamet Expedition

Additional Comments:

n/a

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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

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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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18299, accessed: 28 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

None