Tibetan Marches

Migot was a French doctor who set out in 1946 to explore the Chinese-Tibetan frontier. After traveling by caravan he headed, in disguise, for Lhasa but was stopped prior to reaching the Forbidden City. He then turned north toward the legendary lake of Koko-nor and then east to Peking where he was eventually picked up by the Communist troops. From the collection of American mountaineer Richard Irvin with his signature.