Image: Norbu Dhondup in Lhasa, Tibet in 1937 with Tibetan government passport or Lamyig for the 1938 Everest Expedition (cropped)

Description: To celebrate New Year's Day we invited the following to a luncheon party: the Prime Minister; the four Shappes - or Cabinet Ministers - Langchunga, Bhondong, Tendong and Kalon Lama; the Yapshi Kung, or Grand Duke: Tsarong Dzaza, and Chikyap Khempo, the head of the Ecclesiastical party. ... On arrival the first act of the Cabinet was to hand to Norbhu a sealed packet made of coarse Tibetan paper, together with the customary white silk scarf of greeting. This turned out to be the permission for an Everest Expedition in 1938. The Cabinet had been considering the question for some weeks and it struck us as an act of the greatest courtesy to hand over the permit so unostentatiously as a New Year's present" ['Lhasa Mission, 1936: Diary of Events', Part XII p.1 , written by Chapman] [MS 23/03/2006]
Title: Norbu Dhondup in Lhasa, Tibet in 1937 with Tibetan government passport or Lamyig for the 1938 Everest Expedition (cropped)
Credit: The Pitt Rivers Museum
Author: Frederick Spencer Chapman
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