Tombazi Nicolas Alexander

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Biografie:
Nicolas Alexander Tombazi 1894-1986
Nicolas Tombazi died early in 1986 on his 92nd birthday. He became a member of the Club in 1926, his proposer being Douglas Freshfield. He was born at the Greek Embassy in St Petersburg, but officially registered at the family's home island of Hydra. From an early age, sightseeing and mountains in particular attracted his attention, and his first camera, a box Brownie No 2, accompanied him everywhere on his trips round the archaeological sites and mountains of Greece, many of which he had climbed by the age of 16. Two years later he joined the Greek firm of Ralli Brothers in India. For the next 30 years, photography followed his interests in life-mountaineering, big-game fishing and dog breeding-but mountaineering far outshadowed the rest, for, apart from the Himalaya, most of which he visited from end to end, every home leave was spent in the Swiss Alps. He made a number of expeditions into Sikkim and, after his 1925 trip, published privately an “Account of a Photographic Expedition in Sikkim”, a copy of which he presented to the Club. It was on this journeythat he caught sight of a 'yeti', and always hoped that he would live to see the solution of the mystery.
After his return to Greece, he took up 'photography professionally and, for the rest of his life, toured extensively visiting scenic ana archaeological sites. He amassed a collection of almost 50,000 photographs and held numerous exhibitions. He was a member of the Royal Photographic Society, Treasurer of the Photographic Society of India, and had been honoured with the distinction of Member of the Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique of Switzerland.
GWT (with thanks to Joanna Christopoulos)
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 92, 1987, Seite 296


Geboren am:
1894
Gestorben am:
1986