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Earliest European view of Everest found in Kew Archives
Watercolour based on the Hooker sketch by Walter Hood Fitch, which was produced two years later in c.1850.
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Sketch by Sir Joseph Hooker c 1848, showing the double humped peaks of the Everest Lhotse massif.
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Mount Everest as can be photographed today
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