.-. . ' '■■ ■ . . .;.' . : ... .....:. ; ■'■ Kodak ■•film. ■■'. View taken from the summit of Mount Moltke showing the great snowfields (neve) and sections of the Great Divide (eight miles and more distant) at the head of the Franz Josef Glacier, the Aimer Glacier flowing into "The Franz" in tho left centre, the Great Ice Fallsof the Franz Josef Glacier. Itself, the Agassiz Glacier tumbling Into the trunk of "The Franz" from the right, and in the right foreground the snowfield of the ovorhanging Huntirigton Ridge, from the face of which the LNiser Fritz Falls plunge 1209 ft.' The big mountain on the extreme left, almost a range by itself, is Mount Ellode Beaumont. The high ridge in the right centro of the Divide (with tho Mackay Rocks and the Linden Ridge running up to it on the left) comprises the celebrated' Minarets and Mount De.la Beche (the black peak on the fight of the same ridge). Graham's Saddle-is the snow patch on the Divide immediately to the right of Do la Beche,' and on tho right of tho Saddle (adjoining it and 1000 ft lower than De la Becho) is Mount Rudolf. "Tlie Tusk" appears in the right centre of tho neve, and above it, slightly to tho right, Mount. Jervois., The snowfields, from loft to right, are tho Salisbury (above the Aimer 1 Glacier), the Geikio (between Teichelmanri ' Rock, the long "slab" in tho loft centro, and the Mackay Rocks), and the Chamberlin (between the Mackay Rocks and "The Tusk"). The black right-angular mass in the left centre, above the Aimer Glacier, is theAlmor Ridgei a climb of from 800 ft to 1000 ft, the Aimer Bivouac, some 6000 ft above: sea level, being situated in the centre of the small snowflelds on it.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 17
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289.-. . ' '■■ ■ . . .;.' . : ... .....:. ; ■'■ Kodak ■•film. ■■'. View taken from the summit of Mount Moltke showing the great snowfields (neve) and sections of the Great Divide (eight miles and more distant) at the head of the Franz Josef Glacier, the Aimer Glacier flowing into "The Franz" in tho left centre, the Great Ice Fallsof the Franz Josef Glacier. Itself, the Agassiz Glacier tumbling Into the trunk of "The Franz" from the right, and in the right foreground the snowfield of the ovorhanging Huntirigton Ridge, from the face of which the LNiser Fritz Falls plunge 1209 ft.' The big mountain on the extreme left, almost a range by itself, is Mount Ellode Beaumont. The high ridge in the right centro of the Divide (with tho Mackay Rocks and the Linden Ridge running up to it on the left) comprises the celebrated' Minarets and Mount De.la Beche (the black peak on the fight of the same ridge). Graham's Saddle-is the snow patch on the Divide immediately to the right of Do la Beche,' and on tho right of tho Saddle (adjoining it and 1000 ft lower than De la Becho) is Mount Rudolf. "Tlie Tusk" appears in the right centre of tho neve, and above it, slightly to tho right, Mount. Jervois., The snowfields, from loft to right, are tho Salisbury (above the Aimer1 Glacier), the Geikio (between Teichelmanri ' Rock, the long "slab" in tho loft centro, and the Mackay Rocks), and the Chamberlin (between the Mackay Rocks and "The Tusk"). The black right-angular mass in the left centre, above the Aimer Glacier, is theAlmor Ridgei a climb of from 800 ft to 1000 ft, the Aimer Bivouac, some 6000 ft above: sea level, being situated in the centre of the small snowflelds on it. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 17
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