France Postcard: Chamonix Traversee des Crevasses Mer de Glace 1914 XT5174

This historic postcard depicts early mountaineers and tourists navigating ice paths through the crevasse fields of the Mer de Glace glacier in Chamonix. The detailed monochrome photograph shows travelers dressed in period attire guided along the dramatic alpine slopes of the Mont Blanc massif. It captures the adventurous spirit and emerging popularity of high-altitude mountain tourism in southeastern France during the early twentieth century.

This is a standard size postcard which was published by Jullien freres, Phot. Editeurs, Geneve as part of the J. J. series. The postcard was made in France. This postcard was posted in 1914 to M Benjamin Chevalier, 153 rue Lamarck, Paris.


This postcard has slight wear to the bottom left hand corner.



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