Lewis's Photo: "Our Peak"

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Lewis's Photo: "Our Peak"

by bearflag » Sun May 30, 2010 3:37 am

Film tag reads:

"31 08 13.4 V (infinity sign)
f15 t 1/25
"our" peak
from moraine
about 8:30 am"

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Image

Guess?
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by danmerrick » Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:52 pm

Looks like the Palisades. Thunderbolt?
http://www.summitpost.org/image/16652/150222/-once-you-gain-the-crest-of.html
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by bearflag » Sat Jun 05, 2010 3:29 am

Bingo! Decodes as Aug 13, 1931. Lewis Clark's photo of the approach to as yet unnamed Thunderbolt Peak. from 6x9cm Agfa negative.
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by Norris » Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:47 pm

The glacier doesn't look too healthy... I guess they had a spate of global warming back then too 8)
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