Scaling Ixtlaccihuatl 1932

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Note: Location of the events is unknown.

Full titles read: "SCALING IXTLACCIHUATL - Where climbers and the going as hard as hard as pronouncing the name."

Intertitle reads: "An exclusive and spectacular camera adventure up an extinct volcano in Mexico."

L/S of numerous climber...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
59431
Sort Number:
PT 129
Time in/Out:
01:32:00:00 / 01:34:57:00
Canister:
PT 129
Film ID:
1062.12
Issue Date:
12/09/1932

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