Other notable coverage includes his photographs of Jacques Cousteau and his crew aboard Cousteau's vessel the Calypso and the transit of the first white tiger from India to the United States. Abercrombie was the first Western journalist to cover the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in his article Beyond the Sands of Mecca, published 1966.
Other notable coverage consists of his photographs of Jacques Cousteau and his crew aboard Cousteau's vessel Calypso, as well as the transit of the first white tiger from India to the United States. Abercrombie was the initial Western journalist to cover the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in his article Beyond the Sands of Mecca, published 1966.