VITTORIO SELLA. Panorama of N.W. Nepalese face of Kangchenjunga Group from Pangperma, Head of Kangbachen Valley.,1899, Sella numbers HS 109-113. 14.7x85.7" 5 gelatin silver prints, printed 1901, mounted on 17x87" heavy grey board. Inscribed in black ink mount recto HS 109: top, Tent Peaks / 24,090 / 23,740. bottom of mount: Outflow of the Jonsong Glacier. Inscribed on black ink on mount verso HS 109: Sikhim Himalayas. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso HS 109: loan. Inscribed in black ink mount recto HS 110: The Nepal Gap / 21,000; bottom of mount Kangchenjunga [sic] range seen from the Xanchen [sic] Glacier in Nepal / at a height of 17,000 feet. Inscribed on black ink on mount verso HS 110: Sikhim Himalayas. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso HS 110: loan. Inscribed in black ink mount recto HS 111: The Twins / 23,350; Kangchenjunga / 28,150. Inscribed in pencil on upper edge of print: Summit of Kangchenjunga. Inscribed on black ink on mount verso HS 111: Sikhim Himalayas. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso HS 111: 111. Inscribed on mount recto HS 112: 25,780. Inscribed on black ink on mount verso HS 112: Sikhim Himalayas. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso HS 112: 112. Embossed with Vittorio Sella stamp in lower right of print HS 113. Inscribed in black ink mount recto HS 113: The Wedge Peak. Inscribed on black ink on mount verso HS 113: Sikhim Himalayas. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso HS 113: 113.

One of the glorious panoramas in the Sella collection highlighting the power of the massive mountains and giant glacier flows.

In the far east of Nepal, the Himalayas rise to the Kangchenjunga massif on the border with India, the third highest mountain in the world, the most easterly 8,000m (26,000ft) summit and the highest point of India. The eastern side of Kangchenjunga is in the Indian state of Sikkim, formerly an independent Kingdom, it lies on the main route from India to Lhasa Tibet, which passes over the Nathu La pass into the Tibet. East of Sikkim lies the ancient Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan.

Published version titled below image: THE KAMGCHENJUNGA GROUP / Seen from the Kangchen Glacier in Nepal At a Height of 17,000 feet. V. Sella, Photo: Above image Reads: The Tent Peak / 24,090; Peak to the far right panel 1 23,470; The Nepal Gap / 21,000; The Twins / 23, 350; Kangchenjunga / 23,150; 25,780; The Wedge Peak. p. 72 Round Kangchenjunga: A Narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration, by Douglas Freshfield, London, Edward Arnold 1903

Kangchenjunga 8,586 m 28,169 ft. lies in the Kangchenjunga Himal straddling Nepal and Sikkim, India with 3 of the 5 peaks on the border. Contains 16 peaks over 7,000 m (23,000 ft.). It is 78 miles 125 km east-southeast of Mt. Everest. It is 45 miles north of Darjiling. The western side is from Johnsong La down the Gingsang and Kangchenjunga glaciers and the rivers of Ghunsa and Tamur. South of the southern face of Kangchenjunga the Singalila Ridge separating Sikkim from Nepal.

It has five major peaks, Kangchenjunga Main 8,586 m 28,169 ft., Kangchenjunga West/Yalung Kang 8,505 m 27,904 ft, Kangchenjunga Central 8,482 m 27, 828 ft., Kangchenjunga South 8,494 m, 27,867 ft and Kangbachen 7,903 m 25,928 ft.

Kangchenjunga is roughly bound on the west side is the Tamur River, the north the Lhonak Chu (River) and Jonsong La (Peak), the is the Teesta River.

Good: Wear and rough edges where prints come together, prints lifting, and corner wear, abrasions, color shift first panel left where print was folded and rested on other part of panorama; 1 1/2" tear in R edge of 113 print and backing.