1. VITTORIO SELLA. Pandim, Telephotograph from Jongri, 1899, Sella number HS 149. 6.6x9" collodion print, printed 1901, mounted on 10x12" heavy brown board. Embossed with Vittorio Sella stamp in lower right of print. Inscribed in black ink mount recto: Summit of Pandim (telephoto at distance of 25 km.). Inscribed in pencil mount recto: 149 / HS 149.

2. VITTORIO SELLA. Pandim from Praig Chui Path to Guicha La ,?1899, Sella number HS 150. 9.5x7.3" collodion print, printed 1901, mounted on 10x12" heavy brown board. Embossed with Vittorio Sella stamp in lower right of print. Inscribed in black ink mount recto: Pandim and forest from near the Praig-Chu Fall at the foot of Alukthang Glacier. Inscribed in pencil mount recto: 150 / HS 150.

Pandim is in Sikkim, India 6,691 m 21,952 ft., southeast of Kangchenjunga

The series in question is displayed in the west precipice of Pandim, and even at a distance the veins of pegmatite can be seen penetrating the more stratified portion of the cliff (see illustration). The rocks show great variety in hand specimens, but two types predominate.

The first is a coarse light-coloured rock made up of grains of quartz and calcite with crystals of garnet and more rarely idocrase. The second is a green striped rock containing garnets in eyes and a large proportion of epidote and hornblende: it also contains calcite and quartz and appears to be interbedded with the former rock. Both rocks are intercalated with mica schists and are penetrated by fine veins of igneous rock: this is sometimes pegmatite and sometimes a kind of fine hornblende schist, reminding one of the margins of the Scourie dykes described by Mr. Teall. p 290

The second view here Freshfield described: "The day was glorious to its close. When we regained the level of the Jongri pastures, we were greeted by a distant view of marvelous clearness: far beyond the foothills the broad bed of the Teesta was marked by a conspicuous silver ribbon winding about across the vague face of the vaporous plains, which seemed to rise to meet the soft pink edge of the upper vault. Man, at least the species traveler, must grumble - and we accordingly found a pretext in the weather. It was too invitingly fine. It seemed a pity not to attempt a great peak. The Sellas suggested an assault on Kabru. After much consideration, and with deep regret, I declined to share in such an expedition. My determining reasons were the cold, and the condition in which we had found the snow at 16,000 feet on the Guicha La. To climb 8000 feet higher, to 24,000 feet, when the rivulets were hard frozen as low as 12,000 feet in the valleys, and the snow above was powdery, seemed to me extremely risky. I had a very vivid recollection of a narrow escape from frostbite on the Lysjoch in similar conditions, and I thought it unlikely that we could force our way up 8000 feet through soft snow, and probable that we might be badly frostbitten before we failed." p 231, Round Kangchenjunga: A Narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration, by Douglas Freshfield, London, Edward Arnold 1903

Both prints Very Good to Excellent: Minor to medium wear and edge and corner wear. Mounts have corner and edge wear, dirt. Mount versos have tape marks.