Joseph Holmes ("Bob") Miller (left) and Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (right)
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-3892]
Creator: British Information Services
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1956
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-3892
Left to right: New Zealand mountaineers Joseph Holmes ("Bob") Miller (1919-1986) and Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (1919-2008). Miller was deputy leader of Hillary's Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The men are shown digging out oil drums dropped from the air as part of their advance training in New Zealand.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-3892
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Scientific expeditions
New Zealand
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-3892]
Gelatin silver prints