BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY.

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Three press photographs from the first summitting of Mount Gaudry. Some of the first publicly released Admiralty images of the successful ascent. At 8,400 feet high, Gaudry is the tallest peak on Adelaide Island. The feat came a year after a British Antarctic Survey team climbed Mount Liotard, the island's second-highest mountain.The ascent was made by a three-man party, including two Royal Marines (Captain Terry Wills and Marine Terence McAuliffe) and John Green, the secretary of the British Antarctic Survey. They reached the summit on 9 January 1963. Two images were taken during the journey to base camp and show a detachment from HMS Protector, a Royal Navy ice patrol ship, hauling supplies and pausing for refreshment. The third captures Wills and Green during their descent, resting 1,000 feet from the summit. The photographs were dispatched to London by Protector.

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