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Mountaineers

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  • H.-B. de Saussure and his party halting on the Col du Géant on their ascent of Mont Blanc, 1787. Colour lithograph by F. Baumann, 1863.
  • The ascent of Mont Blanc by John Auldjo's party in 1827: the party negotiating a cliff. Lithograph after J. Auldjo, 1828.
  • Horace Bénédict de Saussure and others descending Mont Blanc. Coloured aquatint.
  • The ascent of Mont Blanc by John Auldjo's party in 1827: traversing a gap in a glacier. Lithograph after J. Auldjo, 1828.
  • Pen-y-Gwryd, Wales: a mountaineering party seated outside Penygwryd Hotel, eight men, six women. Photograph by G.D. and A. Abraham, 1897.
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    Horace Bénédict de Saussure and others descending Mont Blanc. Coloured aquatint.

    | Reference: 43847i
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    The ascent of Mont Blanc by John Auldjo's party in 1827: mountaineers scaling a wall of ice above a precipice. Lithograph after J. Auldjo, 1828.

    Auldjo, John, 1805-1886. | Date: [1828] | Reference: 43854i
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    Four men and a woman on the side of a rockface with the message 'Positiv/Aktiv; a message about being positive and active when HIV positive by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 674114i
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    H.-B. de Saussure and his party halting on the Col du Géant on their ascent of Mont Blanc, 1787. Colour lithograph by F. Baumann, 1863.

    Baumann, F. | Date: 1863 | Reference: 43861i
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    Pen-y-Gwryd, Wales: a mountaineering party seated outside Penygwryd Hotel, eight men, six women. Photograph by G.D. and A. Abraham, 1897.

    | Date: 1897 | Reference: 569938i
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