[Photographs taken by Monica Jackson and Betty Stark during the 1955 Scottish women's Himalayan expedition of 1955.]
Jackson, Monica,1920-2020,photographer.
Stark, Elizabeth,1923-2000,photographer.
[Scotland : publisher not identified,
1955?]
Silver gelatin prints of photographs taken by Monica Jackson and Elizabeth "Betty" Stark, including images of the Scottish Ladies Himalayan Expedition of 1955. Some of the photographs were used to illustrate Jackson and Stark's book "Tents in the Clouds: the first women’s Himalayan expedition" published in London in 1956
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The photographs formerly belonged to Monica Jackson. Three of the photographs were used in the Library's 2021-2022 exhibition "Petticoats and Pinnacles". The photographs have been gifted to the National Library of Scotland by Monica Jackson's son Simon Jackson.
Women mountaineers
Mountaineering