View from the summit of ... Type:stretched canvas

View from the summit of ... Type:stretched canvasView from the summit of Kismim Pass out across fields and rolling hills in the Jabal Qara mountains. On the right two Qara tribesman sit below large trees growing in the foreground. In the distance below large grass covered downs stretch out into the far distance. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

and the snow-covered Atlas Mountains visible in the distance

They are wearing high conical hats

during the party's journey towards Al Humrah sands

In the foreground two children sit at the front of a two-wheeled cart behind pulled across the sand into shallow water by a donkey

He is wearing a silver-sheathed dagger on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt)

A piece of cord has been tied from the camel's halter to its neck

which was the first well Wilfred Thesiger and his party encountered after crossing the 'Uruq ash Shaybah dunes

The landscape surrounding the men is a vast expanse of low dunes

during the party's journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis

Three-quarter length portrait of one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions standing in sands north of Al Ain during the party's journey from Al Ain to Ramlat Unayq

He also holds a camel stick under his right arm

Three young Wahiba boys kneel in a line on a rug lying in the sand