IDNO

DG.144910.SHP

Description

"Dochen and the Chomolhari Range.
17 August '38."

Place

S Asia; Tibet; Dochen; Jomolhari Range [Chomolhari]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Shepheard, Ken

Collector / Expedition

Date

17 August 1938

Collection Name

Shepheard Collection

Source

Shepheard Rogers, Patricia

Format

Album Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: Noted in Shepheard's diary 'Some Notes of Ken Shepheard on his expedition to Lhasa, Tibet, in September - October 1938' p.19,
"17 August 1938
Alternative route via Kemi La and Trongma.
Delightful open rolling hills with poor grazing and some hardy blue daisies. Saw burrhel and 2 Kiang (red, pie-bald).
Kala Tso very dry and strip of hard salty mud on S-E side average width 1 mile and at least 5 miles long make good landing ground.
Kalashar about 700 acres under cultivation. Water 1,000,000 galls/hr in stream between dak bungalow and village.
Camping ground unlimited." [JD 26/01/2020]