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Description: | The photograph on the front shows the Karakoram Range, Northern Pakistan, while the card itself is signed by British mountaineers. The Karakoram is a great mountain system in Northeast Pakistan and Northern India, near the Chinese border. It extends 300 miles southeastward from the Pamir Knot, and includes some of the world's highest peaks, and many of the world's longest glaciers. Among the high peaks is K2 (8611 m), the second highest mountain in the world. Associated Biscuits sponsored several expeditions to the region, though the exact occassion of this one is unclear. The card is franked 24 May. In 1975 Pete Boardman (whose signature can be seen here) led the British South West face of Everest Expedition and also the British K2 Expedition. During this year he and Doug Scott (whose signature is also on the card) made a famous ascent of the Ogre peak in the Karakoram range. The card was possibly sent during this period. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | Bright, K social history trade Palmer, E.W. | Temporal: | start=1975-01-01; end=1975-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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