Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:50 PM 11/24/97 -0600, Eric Welch, authority, wit, bon vivant, wrote: >'84? It can't be. I talked to one of the guys from the expedition and saw >the pictures while I was living in Canada, and I left in '83. But you're >right. It was a Canadian expedition. <<sigh>> I am Such An Authority I believe my own delusions sometimes. No, it was '82, of course. 200 cameras were marketed to the general public at the same time that the expedition was in place on the massif. It's interesting how this has linked Everest and Leica in the public's mind, even though Everest has a rather thin link to the mountain. I was asked, years back, to participate in drafting a VF article on this and just haven't gotten around to doing it, though I am doing some research on the early North Face climbs. Heady stuff, but all documented with Ross and Wray and Zeiss glass. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!