The Shipton–Tilman Nanda Devi expeditions took place in the 1930s. Nanda Devi is a Himalayan mountain in what was then the Garhwal District in northern...

Eastern Ltd), New Delhi. ISBN 81-224-0752-8. Shipton, E., Tilman, H.W. & Houston, C. (Reprinted 2000). Nanda Devi:Exploration and Ascent, The Mountaineers...

The Nanda Devi National Park or Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, established in 1982 is a national park situated around the peak of Nanda Devi (7816 m) in...

the nearby Rishiganga power project. photograph from the Shipton–Tilman Nanda Devi expeditions The Rishiganga and Dhauliganga river valleys in the Himalayas...

1933: Tilman ascends Kilimanjaro (to summit) alone. 1934: Tilman and Shipton, with three others, make the first recorded entrance into the Nanda Devi Sanctuary...

now famous route over the Khumbu Glacier. Shipton and Tilman also discovered the access route to the Nanda Devi sanctuary through the Rishi Ganga gorge...

Nanda Devi Sanctuary was reached and described by mountaineers Eric Shipton & Bill Tilman; 1936: Mountaineers Bill Tilman & Noel Odell climbed Nanda Devi;...

010 ft)). In 1934 Eric Shipton Ang Tharkay and Kusang Namgir climbed Maiktoli during the 1934 Shipton–Tilman Nanda Devi expeditions. In 1961 A nine-member...

Everest Committee in London, Eric Shipton was appointed leader following his successful trekking expedition to the Nanda Devi region in India in 1934. Compared...

817 m) Nanda Devi in 1936, at that time the highest mountain to have been climbed. Frank Smythe (Everest 1933) was de facto climbing leader and Shipton (1933...

climbers of the day, Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman – similar to their 1935 reconnaissance. At a meeting in February 1937 Tilman was appointed leader and...

early attempt on Kangchenjunga. Eric Shipton (1907–1977) British. With Bill Tilman, first to penetrate Nanda Devi sanctuary. Discovered route to Everest...

altitude. Eric Shipton led the 1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance accompanied by Bill Tilman and a small team on an "alpine-style" expedition. The purpose...

Houston had met Tilman in 1936 when his son, Charlie Houston, had participated with him in the British–American Himalayan Expedition to Nanda Devi and he invited...

mountaineering but in 1936 he was selected by Bill Tilman for the British–American Himalayan Expedition to Nanda Devi. Because of his frostbite he was not able...

return visit to Nanda Devi in 1936 – he had not been available when Bill Tilman was recruiting sherpas for the 1936 ascent of Nanda Devi. There were two...

Himalaya. Nanda Devi, at 7,816 m (25,643 ft) the highest mountain wholly within the British Empire, had been the object of several expeditions, and it was...

F.Noyce and G.Rawlinson. It first came to light when Shipton and Tilman came from the Nanda Devi Sanctuary by climbing down the Sunderdunga col to this...

British-American climbing expedition, including Bill Tilman, Noel Odell, and Charles Snead Houston, to India for the successful first ascent of Nanda Devi. In 1938 the...

first ascent Cho Oyu (1954) Bill Tilman (1898–1977) UK, explorer, climbed in Africa and Himalaya, first ascent Nanda Devi (1936) Luis Trenker (1892–1990)...

The Ascent of Mt. Waddington AAJ Vol. 3 p. 21 (1937) Günter Seyfferth, Nanda Devi exploration and first ascents Karl Wien, The Ascent of Siniolchu and Simvu...