Item 24 - 'On the Summit of Me La'

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GB 235 HJH/2/2/24

Título

'On the Summit of Me La'

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  • 29 May 1949 (Criação)

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1 black and white photograph mounted on lightweight paper

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Nombre del productor

(1915-1992)

Historia biográfica

Accompanied G. Sherriff and F. Ludlow on their last expedition in 1949.


  • Studied medicine at Birmingham University, obtained his Fellowship in 1942

  • 1942-1946, served as a ship’s surgeon in the Merchant Navy

  • During his time as surgical registrar and resident surgical officer at Birmingham General Hospital he worked with H. H. Sampson, B. T. Rose, R. Scott Mason and J. B. Leather, and obtained the MCh (Orth) from Liverpool in 1950.

  • 1951, appointed surgeon to the Birmingham Accident Hospital

  • 1955, married Dr Sheila C. S. Meux in 1955 and they had two sons and one daughter


MRCS 1940
FRCS 1942
MB ChB 1938
MCh (Orth) 1950


“His studies of the anatomy of the foot elucidated the function of the Plantar fascia and both simplified and clarified the movements of inversion and eversion: as a result, he lectured at anatomists meetings both in this country and in France and the United States. He also showed how inversion could cause the familiar lateral rotation injury of the ankle.”

Developed what is known as a Hicks bone plate - used in many countries for internal fixation of bone fractures

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black and white photograph mounted on lightweight white paper

Photograph of a approaching the snow covered summit of a mountain (Me La) in Bhutan. " 2 people (men) in the photograph

writing on the front of paper

[TRANSCRIPTION]

On summit of Me La looking down into Tibet
May 29th
14,500 ft.

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Sistema de arreglo

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Idioma del material

  • inglés

Escritura del material

  • latín

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written in ink

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1 Black and white photograph mounted on lightweight white paper.

Condition - Support: minor staining, discolouration. Some yellowed adhesive on sheet behind yellowed paper.
Condition - photograph: edges worn, surface dirt. minor staining.

Approx. Dimensions - with support: 203x253mm
Approx. Dimensions - without support: 163x114mm

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Hicks Index of Negatives

49.A.11.8

Hicks Diary

63

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Parcial

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Created: 21 August 2026, C.Kemnitz

Idioma(s)

  • inglés

Escritura(s)

  • latín

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