[Photo.86/2(049)] Party of men including members of German Nazi expedition to Tibet, 1939

Group photo including members of a German Nazi expedition to Tibet under Ernst Schafer. Fleming Mackenzie has noted the names on the reverse and captioned ‘Keeping the Huns at arms length’. The group includes, standing, Gaev, (Bavarian), Lobsang (Mackenzie’s bearer) and Krause (Berlin). Seated are Berner (East Prussia), Captain R.V. Clifford, Fleming Mackenzie, Ernst Schafer (Rhineland), Vernot (East Prussia), January 1939.

Part of a collection of 81 loose black and white photographs taken by Fleming Mackenzie while serving in Tibet in 1938-1939.