Yellow Expedition

[1] One group of the expedition travelled eastwards through the French Lebanon, French Syria, Kingdom of Iraq under British administration, Persia, Afghanistan, British India until the border of Xinjiang, then a de facto independent region of China under control of the warlord Jin Shuren.

Another group travelled westwards across China from Beijing to Urumchi, where they were held hostage by Jin Shuren's troops for several weeks.

[2] The French archeologist Joseph Hackin, the Russian-French painter Alexandre Jacovleff (as an "Artistic Adviser"), the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the American photographer Maynard Owen Williams participated in the expedition.

[7] In British Hong Kong, Haardt died of pneumonia and the expedition was aborted.

[10] In the early 1970s, a French-West German co-produced drama depicting the expedition was filmed.

Originally planned routes of the expedition
Kégresse track vehicles of the expedition
Discussing the planned expedition in December 1930: John Oliver La Gorce (vice-president of the National Geographic Society ), Georges-Marie Haardt (organizer and participant in the expedition), Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (President of the National Geographic Society) and Maynard Owen Williams (American journalist and part-time participant in the expedition).