b'157and oxygen-engineer; Harold Hoerlin, mountaineer and photographer; F. S. Smythe, reporter to the English press; George Wood Johnson and J. S. Hannah, of the Himalayan Club, who served as mountaineers and transport-officers; Marcel Kurz, mountaineer and topographer, and Charles Duvanel, film-camera operator, both from Switzerland. Erwin Schneider, the young Austrian mountaineer and geological assistant, made up the group.Four peaks of over 7,000m, or 23,000 feet, were climbed to their summits. These were Jonsong (24,473 feet), Nepal (23,470 feet), Dodang Nyima (23,623 feet), and Ramthang (23,311 feet). The International Himalayan Expedition (or I.H.E.) also ascended five lower peaks, viz., one of 20,014 feet and one of 20,424 feet, above Pangperma; the Mouse (20,539 feet) between Kangbachen and Ramthang peaks; a peak (alt. c. 21,350 feet) between Kellas Saddle and Jonsong peak; and the Kang peak (18,735 feet). Scientific observations were as important as mountaineering. They included geology, morphology, glaciology, topography, meteorology, climatology and physiology.Frank Smythe wrote We went to Kangchenjunga in response not to the dictates of science, but in obedience to that indefinable urge men call adventure. The expedition set out to climb the worlds third-highest mountain, Kangchenjunga. As yet unclimbed, a number of attempts had been made on the peak, including two in the previous year. The Kangchenjunga Adventure records Frank Smythes attempts as part of the international team to reach the summit, how a deadly1337avalanche, which killed one of the sherpas, brought an end to their climb, and how they turned their attentions instead to Jonsong Peak, which offered a more appealing alternative to1336risky assaults on the greatest peaks.$1,0002,000 HUBERT ENNOR framed black and white photo display with captions and name plaque,44 x 74cm overall$80120 1337ARNOLD NEWMANN black and white photograph portrait of conductor Stewart Robertson. Signed by the photographer and endorsed to Peter Meckel.31 x 27cm, 58 x 48cm overall$2003001338ROBERT COCK Tasman Island, framed black and white photographic print, signed and titled in the lower margin and dated 2006,76 x 100cm overall$100200 BOOKS & EPHEMERA1339The Book of Common Prayer, 1625; largely complete, but lacking some early pages (or parts thereof); attractively rebound with replacement endpapers and spine but preserving the upper and lower leather panels which appear to be 17th century. Ornate woodblock engravings of initial letters.$100200 1340TULL, Jethro. The Horse-Hoing Husbandry, Compleat in Four Parts: Or, An Essay On The Principles Of Tillage and Vegetation. Second edition [Lond. 1743], small folio, in full brown morocco$2503501340'