This short video documents a photo journey in Tibet about three years ago with wet plates. 25 days at 21,500 feet. The peak is about 23,500 feet.
https://youtu.be/s3xDkASvqlQ
This short video documents a photo journey in Tibet about three years ago with wet plates. 25 days at 21,500 feet. The peak is about 23,500 feet.
https://youtu.be/s3xDkASvqlQ
Last edited by Hugo Zhang; 23-Oct-2021 at 11:37.
Wow, what an awesome adventure. 23,500 ft.! That alone is hard let alone wet plate. Looks like they had plenty to feast on.
Shishapangma is 26,335 feet high and ranks No. 14 among the highest peaks in the world. This wet plate shooting event was for the ice towers on the west of Shishapangma.
The photographic team entered the area on Sept. 10th and exited the area on Oct. 5th of 2018. It is very rare for human being to make photographic documents of glacier at an altitude of 21,300 feet.
Two main difficulties of this photographic project:
1. Wet plate photography demands lots of water. Ice in the glacier contains many minerals and it is very hard to control their influences on chemicals used for wet plate photography. We had to do repeated testings to try to get perfect plates.
2. Another issue is waste water treatment. Glacier is the last treasure of our human kind and it can't be polluted in any possible way. So an "evaporation tank" was built with plastic tarps. Please note the images of that at 2:34 of the video. The feasting of last week was actually a waiting period for the waste water in the tank to evaporate. After that, all debris wrapped in plastic tarp were carried out of the glacier area.
Photographer: Hass
Videographe: Qibing
Photographic assistants:Nono, Bin Lu
Sherpas:
Badan,
Yundan
Tahxi
Nobody got up to 23,500 feet. That's the altitude of the peaks they photographed. The only person I know of in history who actually got a now-antique style ULF camera over 23,000 was Vittoria Sella about 125 years ago, on a true ice climb. I once had a famous Himalayan climber offer to get me up to Camp II on Dhauligiri to set a new world record; but that was preempted by falling in love with a young gal. I made the right choice. But what an interesting flick!
Amazing film, great adventure. Are the images online anywhere?
Amazing!
How did they keep the developer warm?
Kent in SD
In contento ed allegria
Notte e di vogliam passar!
Thermos bottles? Hot chocolate emulsion?
Those leftover glacial ice "pententes" sure look photographically tempting. My only objection is that the climber was using a Black Diamond made in PRC ice axe instead of a Stubai. I thought the Tibetans disliked the Chinese.
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