Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/24

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica and Everest, Yet Again!
From: Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:57:42 -0000

Perhaps I shall write a letter to the late editor of this late publication.
Or then again, perhaps not!
Thank you for your consummate knowledge available to all.

Jem

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Marc James Small [SMTP:msmall@roanoke.infi.net]
> 
> If Wager were on Everest in '31, it would be grand news to us all!  But he
> WAS there in '33, with his cohort-in-crime, Sir Percy Wyn Harris, for the
> discovery of the Mallory or Irvine ice axe, which those of you in England
> may see at the Alpine Club, above the mantle of the fireplace.
> 
> If Wager took a Leica up with him, I would LOVE to see his pictures.
> These
> are unknown to the historians of Everest lore.  (We just uncovered
> Beetham's shots from '24 six months or so back, no great news, but
> interesting and helpful.)
> 
> Marc