Explorer
Pereira had served as British Military attaché in Peking from 1905 to 1910 and was fluent in Chinese. He made many adventurous journeys in China and Tibet, frequently travelling thousands of miles on foot. He was the first European to walk from Peking to Lhasa, when he described the Amne Machin massif in eastern Tibet in 1921-2, sometimes reckoned among the great geographical discoveries of the twentieth century.
His journey from Yunnan along the Tibetan border in 1923 was his last, as he died of some internal trouble just before reaching Kantze (where he was buried), near Batang, Sichuan, in October 1923.
His journals of Chinese exploration were edited shortly after his death. Further extracts from his journals have been published recently (2004-) in the Guards' Magazine, edited by his great nephew, Edward Pereira.
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