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Classic view of the Matterhorn two days after the figure in the foreground stood on its summit, August 5, 1955.

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Gareth

Great Shot

Voted 10/10

Wonderfully framed and composed. There’s also something special about vintage alpine pics (in my book anyway).

Posted Aug 28, 2005 11:43 pm


	Nyle Walton	Re: Great Shot
	Hasn't voted	This picture in black-and-white I originally admired in a magazine advertisement in 1950. I sent away for it and the advertisers kindly sent me an enlargement. I framed it and hung it on my livingroom wall. On August 5, 1955, two days after I had climbed the Matterhorn, I was following a trail above Zermatt that angles southeast toward the Gornergrat when I recognized the very same scene depicted in the photograph. I mounted my Leica C-3 on a tripod, framed in the same composition, pressed the shutter button of my Leica and ran into the scene for this self-timed picture.
		Posted Aug 29, 2005 11:17 am

justahiker

Awesome!!

Voted 10/10

Really beautiful old classic Matterhorn photo!!!

Posted Feb 24, 2007 12:02 pm


	Nyle Walton	Re: Awesome!!
	Hasn't voted	It's reassuring to know that there are appreciators of mountains that have the same sensitivity as I had when I took this picture over fifty years ago.
		Posted Feb 26, 2007 4:17 pm

mvs

must say

Voted 10/10

I have to say the old pictures with their sometimes garish colors do, for some reason, a better job at creating an environment that you just really, really want to step into. The heather on the ground looks inviting. The people seem to have less cares. No one is trying to impress anybody. It looks like a wonderful world. Good job re-creating it!

Posted Aug 4, 2008 8:06 am

BCJ

Fantastic!