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This image is composited from some 35mm photographs that I took on the helicopter flight in for a climb of Mt. Waddington in 1976. Thus the view is from a point in midair, at about 8,000 feet altitude. We landed and camped on the col, then climbed the snow slope up to the right, then up the zig-zag glacier to the summit. On the return climb, the helicopter failed to return to pick us up, so after spending a night in the head of the icefall (center right) we climbed across the saddle in the middle of the icefall and to the left and then down to the Scimitar Glacier. We hiked down the glacier for over a day until another helicopter came to pick us up. It turned out that the pilot who was supposed to get us was lost on the flight from Campbell River to Waddington, and he and his helicopter have never been found. It is archivally matted in Crescent 1607 4-ply matte, in an OPUS metal exhibition frame. The image is drawn in HB pencil on a 22" by 30" sheet of ARCHES 300gsm Limited Edition 2000 watercolour paper.