Expedition participants in 1952

The Scientists
Augustin Lombard 1905 – 1987, Professor of Geology
Albert Zimmermann 1907 – 1982,Botanist

Augustin Lombard, Dr. sc. nat. and Professor of Geology, accompanied the spring expedition in 1952 up to the basin of the Khumbu glacier. He did this in order to complete his geological records right across eastern Nepal by means of stratigraphic insights into the tectonics of the covering structure in the Everest massif. The botanist Albert Zimmermann climbed up to the high cirque. Beneath the south wall of Everest, at almost 6400 m, he discovered the highest plants ever found, a saxifrage and a navelwort. Dangbar Singh accompanied Professor Lombard as interpreter on his excursion through eastern Nepal.