[]
Your ongoing selection
Asset(s) Assets
Your quote 0

Your selection

Clear selection
{"event":"pageview","page_type1":"catalog","page_type2":"image_page","language":"en","user_logged":"false","user_type":"ecommerce","nl_subscriber":"false"}
{"event":"ecommerce_event","event_name":"view_item","event_category":"browse_catalog","ecommerce":{"items":[{"item_id":"BL3292899","item_brand":"other","item_category":"illustration","item_category2":"out_of_copyright","item_category3":"standard","item_category5":"not_balown","item_list_name":"search_results","item_name":"from_doran_pass_23_sep_1885_crest_of_the_durah_pass_23rd_september_camp_above_shah_salim_a_start_for","item_variant":"undefined"}]}}
Metadata Block (Hidden)

Contact us for further help

High res file dimension

Search for more high res images or videos

From Doran Pass. 23 Sep 1885 'Crest of the Durah Pass'. '23rd September, camp above Shah Salim....

From Doran Pass.
23 Sep 1885
'Crest of the Durah Pass'. '23rd September, camp above Shah Salim. - A start for
Asset - General information
Copyright status
No Additional Copyright
Permissions
More info
Permission required for non-editorial use (inc book and magazine covers). Please contact us
Largest available format 5202 × 4536 px 19 MB
Dimension [pixels] Dimension in 300dpi [mm] File size [MB]
Large 5202 × 4536 px 440 × 384 mm 18.9 MB
Medium 1024 × 893 px 87 × 76 mm 1.1 MB
Leave the work to our dedicated Account Managers
License details
Your details
*
*
*
*
*
IMAGE number
BL3292899
Image title
From Doran Pass. 23 Sep 1885 'Crest of the Durah Pass'. '23rd September, camp above Shah Salim. - A start for the Durah Pass was made at 7 a.m, and the crest was reached at 9.45, some of the officers riding the whole way to the top...We...ascended the Durah Pass, and found it wonderfully easy. It is, as Aman-ul-Mulk before told me, the only practicable avenue into his country, and could rapidly be made fit for wheels. No European, unless perhaps a Russian in disguise, has ever visited the pass, McNair having seen it from a long way off only...On the actual crest there was no snow, although it stood in frozen waves in many places on the west declivity [seen in foreground of print]'. [Albumen print, 278x216mm].
Auto-translated text View Original Source
Location
British Library, London, UK
Image description

Album of 'Photographs, Gilgit, Chitral, Yassin, Mastuch, &ca'. [Gilgit Mission]. Illustrator: Giles, George Michael James The photographs are recorded as having been sent from India to the Secretary of State in August 1886, August 1886, Source/Shelfmark: Photo 1040/59 .

Photo credit
From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
India / Asia / landscape / hindoostan / asia / 19th century / photographs / photography / mountain / mountains / photographic image / photo / hindustan / photograph / mountain range / mount / mont

Similar Images