BRITISH TRANS-ARCTIC EXPEDITION. A group of 15 photographs mounted on board of the British Trans-Arctic Expedition in 1968-1969, including two photographs signed by all five members of the Expedition: Freddie Church, Allen Gill, Roy 'Fritz' Koener, Ken Hedges and Wally Herbert, two photographs signed by Wally Herbert and another signed by Alan Gill, each 23cm x 35.5cm, together with another smaller photograph and some related ephemera. Note: Herbert's expedition was the first to make it, undisputed, to the North Pole on foot, reached on 6 April 1969. In all, the expedition made a 3,800 mile surface journey from Alaska to Spitsbergen in Norway, over the North Pole.