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Mount Rathong, 21,910 feet (6,679 m), west of Kanchenjunga in the Eastern Himalaya. Photographed at first light from Pelling with a 500mm lens, which is what holds the detail across a face some 25 miles distant — every flute, serac and rock band on the summit pyramid rendered from a valley town.
For all its accessibility to a camera, the mountain itself has barely been climbed. Rathong has had two ascents, in 1964 and 1987, both by way of the West Rathong glacier and icefall — the 1987 expedition mounted by twenty climbers of the 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army. The only viable line runs via the col between Kabru South and Rathong and then the knife-edged north ridge; the southeast holds a difficult icefall, the west a rocky ridge, and the south a steep overhanging face. A 2008 attempt on the southeast ridge reached around 20,700 feet before strong winds and low temperatures turned the party back.
From Pelling the mountain reads as pure form — light on ice, shadow in the couloirs, a shape that resolves cleanly in a single morning's light. What the photograph cannot show is how few people have stood on top of it.
A note on presentation: black-and-white landscape has traditionally lived on a matte surface, where tone and texture do the work. On a glossy surface the same image becomes something else — dimensional, luminous, contemporary. Acrylic offers both; they are different objects rather than better and worse.
Standard Acrylic — This is a detail image before it is anything else, and acrylic protects that: sunlit ice stays separated from the shadowed couloirs rather than blocking up, and the fluting on the face holds. Glossy (OP3) is the high-gloss option, maximum depth and vibrancy with premium UV filtering; matte (P99) is anti-glare, holding balanced sharpness and the same UV protection with reflections removed.
Also available in: TruLife Acrylic version · ChromaLuxe Metal version · Gallery Metal version · Fine Art Paper version
Made to order · Allow 3–5 weeks for production and delivery · Shipping charged at cost, never marked up · Shipping & Returns
The watermark shown here protects the online image only. Your print arrives clean.
Mount Rathong, 21,910 feet (6,679 m), west of Kanchenjunga in the Eastern Himalaya. Photographed at first light from Pelling with a 500mm lens, which is what holds the detail across a face some 25 miles distant — every flute, serac and rock band on the summit pyramid rendered from a valley town.
For all its accessibility to a camera, the mountain itself has barely been climbed. Rathong has had two ascents, in 1964 and 1987, both by way of the West Rathong glacier and icefall — the 1987 expedition mounted by twenty climbers of the 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army. The only viable line runs via the col between Kabru South and Rathong and then the knife-edged north ridge; the southeast holds a difficult icefall, the west a rocky ridge, and the south a steep overhanging face. A 2008 attempt on the southeast ridge reached around 20,700 feet before strong winds and low temperatures turned the party back.
From Pelling the mountain reads as pure form — light on ice, shadow in the couloirs, a shape that resolves cleanly in a single morning's light. What the photograph cannot show is how few people have stood on top of it.
A note on presentation: black-and-white landscape has traditionally lived on a matte surface, where tone and texture do the work. On a glossy surface the same image becomes something else — dimensional, luminous, contemporary. Acrylic offers both; they are different objects rather than better and worse.
Standard Acrylic — This is a detail image before it is anything else, and acrylic protects that: sunlit ice stays separated from the shadowed couloirs rather than blocking up, and the fluting on the face holds. Glossy (OP3) is the high-gloss option, maximum depth and vibrancy with premium UV filtering; matte (P99) is anti-glare, holding balanced sharpness and the same UV protection with reflections removed.
Also available in: TruLife Acrylic version · ChromaLuxe Metal version · Gallery Metal version · Fine Art Paper version
Made to order · Allow 3–5 weeks for production and delivery · Shipping charged at cost, never marked up · Shipping & Returns
The watermark shown here protects the online image only. Your print arrives clean.