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Mountaineering

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Images about Mountaineering

3 images from works
  • Situations in which a Tabloid medicine chest made by Burroughs Wellcome would be useful. Colour process print, ca. 1909.
  • Situations in which a Tabloid medicine chest made by Burroughs Wellcome would be useful. Colour process print, ca. 1909.
  • Situations in which a Tabloid medicine chest made by Burroughs Wellcome would be useful. Colour process print, ca. 1909.

Works from the collections

32 works

    • Books

    Mountain medicine : a clinical study of cold and high altitude / Michael Ward.

    Ward, Michael, 1925-2005. | Date: 1975
    • Books
    • Online

    First aid to the injured : with special reference to accidents occuring in the mountains : a handbook for guides, climbers and travellers / by Oscar Bernhard ; tr. from the German by Michael G. Foster.

    Bernhard, Oskar, 1861-1939. | Date: 1900
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Tyndall, John F.R.S. (1820-1893), British physicist

    Tyndall, John, 1820-1893. | Date: 1855-1890 | Reference: MS.7777
    • Books

    Alpine notes & the climbing foot / by George Wherry.

    Wherry, George, 1852-1928. | Date: 1896
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    • Online

    Ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc, 16th-18th of 9th month September, 1834 / By Martin Barry, M.D.

    Barry, M. (Martin), 1802-1855. | Date: [1835]
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Related topics

History, 20th Century
United Kingdom
Altitude
Altitude Sickness
Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Physicians
European Alpine Region
Blanc, Mont (France and Italy)

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