Affair of the Dancing Lamas
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The Affair of the Dancing Lamas was an Anglo–Tibetan diplomatic controversy stemming mainly from the visit to Britain in 1924–25 of a party of Tibetan monks as part of a publicity stunt for The Epic o
The Tibetan "lamas" in London, December 1924
Francis Younghusband, about 1905
Lord Curzon, about 1902
Charles Bell, Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal and Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet (l–r), in 1910
John de Vars Hazard
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John de Vars Hazard MC was a British Army officer and mountaineer who took part in the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, most famous for the disappearance of the mountaineers George Mallory and A
Affair of the Dancing Lamas
…photographer, but the mountaineering establishment was closely involved and to avoid embarrassment they shifted the blame for the ban on expeditions onto John de Vars Hazard, another member of the team, who had gone exploring off the authorised route. The true cause of the diplomatic fuss was kept secret and Hazard remained…
John de Vars Hazard, Everest 1924