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Samuel Bourne
Manirung Pass, Elevation 18,600 Feet
1866 (ca)
Albumen print
Private collection of Peter Spangenberg
LL/64623
"...I seemed to stand on a level with the highest of these innumerable peaks, and as the eye wandered from range to range and from summit to summit, all robed in the silent whiteness of eternal winter, it seemed as though I stood on a solitary island in the middle of some vast polar ocean, whose rolling waves and billows, crested with foam, had been suddenly seized in their mad career by some omnipotent power and commanded to perpetual rest. All was still and serene." Samuel Bourne's notes from The British Journal of Photography, January 28, 1870.
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