Mummery tent

Dent's illustration of a Mummery tent[1]

A Mummery tent is a small, lightweight tent designed and used by Albert Frederick Mummery in the 1880s and named after him. Fred Mummery (1855–1895) was an English pioneer in alpine climbing, making many first ascents, and he developed this type of tent for his lightweight expeditions.

  1. ^ Dent, Clinton Thomas (1892). Mountaineering (2 ed.). Longman, Green. p. 63. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2014.