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Lowe (George) Mixed Type and Autograph Letter Signed, no date, inviting 'Sue' to a private...
Lowe (George)
Mixed Type and Autograph Letter Signed, no date, inviting 'Sue' to a private showing of the Everest Film at the Royal Geographical Society with drinks afterwards at his flat, single side;
idem, Autograph Letter Signed, dated 17th Oct '58, to 'Sue' discussing his availability and how 'at the moment I feel I never want to see another audience and slide', on one side of Trans-Antarctic Expedition headed paper.
[A New Zealander, George Lowe OBE was the last survivor of the 1953 British expedition to Everest and the first to meet Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing as they descended from the summit. His 'The Conquest of Everest' film resulted in his appointment as photographer on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1957-58. His first wife was called Susan].
Mixed Type and Autograph Letter Signed, no date, inviting 'Sue' to a private showing of the Everest Film at the Royal Geographical Society with drinks afterwards at his flat, single side;
idem, Autograph Letter Signed, dated 17th Oct '58, to 'Sue' discussing his availability and how 'at the moment I feel I never want to see another audience and slide', on one side of Trans-Antarctic Expedition headed paper.
[A New Zealander, George Lowe OBE was the last survivor of the 1953 British expedition to Everest and the first to meet Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing as they descended from the summit. His 'The Conquest of Everest' film resulted in his appointment as photographer on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1957-58. His first wife was called Susan].
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