VITTORIO SELLA. Towers on the right side of Baltoro glacier, 1909, Sella number HK SC1006. 11.4x15.3" gelatin silver print, printed c. 1909; mounted on 14x18" heavy gray board. Inscribed in white ink on mount recto: Himalayas / Towers on the right side of Baltoro Glacier. Embossed with Vittorio Sella stamp in lower right of print. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso: 1006 (2003 Catalogue) / 114/80. Mount verso small white oval label with red border inscribed in black ink: Gift of Miss Anna Chase.

The Baltoro Glacier 39 miles in length, is the world's second longest non-polar glacier in the Shigar district Gilgit-Baltistan of Northern Pakistan. The Baltoro Muztagh lies to the south and east of the Glacier and the Masherbrum Mountains lie to the south. Paiju Peak 6610 m 21,686 north side of the Baltoro Glacier and western of Baltoro Muztagh

This lot is one from of a group of the most beautiful vintage silver gelatin prints he made from his final expedition. The goal was to scale K2/Chhogori/Mount Godwin-Austen 8,611 m 20,029 ft., the second highest mountain on planet Earth. Set in the Himalayas Karakoram Range. In 1909, as Sella was approaching his fiftieth birthday, he and his long-time climbing friend the Duke of the Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo di Savoia, embarked on their most ambitious journey yet, to climb K2 in the Western Himalaya Karakoram range, and to satisfy the Duke's primary intention to set a new high-altitude record for a man to have climbed to. In Tibetan, the name Karakoram mean "black gravel," and to reach it meant crossing the vast mountainous region between Kashmir and Chinese Turkestan, a complex system of ranges, immense tablelands, intricate valleys and mighty rivers. The Duke wanted to determine how high human beings could climb and survive, a question that could only be solved by direct experience.

Excellent: Minor wear, edge wear, mount has minor corner and edge wear, back wear.