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Uploaded: 07/22/08 5:12 PM GMT
Monte Rosa II
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On request some more of the Monte Rosa (...actually I have a lot more, but I am not sure that would bore you ...maybe another mountain?) Anyway, what you see here, far-right of the group in the centre, is the highest point of the Monte Rosa massif: the Dufourspitze (4,634m) The mountain is named after Guillaume-Henri Dufour—a Swiss engineer and army officer who led the Sonderbund campaign—following the completion of the Dufourkarten, a series of military topographical maps created under the command of Dufour. The first ascent was by John Birbeck, Charles Hudson, Ulrich Lauener, Christopher Smyth, James G. Smyth, Edward Stephenson, Matthäus Zumtaugwald and Johannes Zumtaugwald on August 1, 1855. Monte Rosa is not difficult to climb in itself, despite hosting some quite impressive ridges, but can be quite dangerous for rookies and veterans alike, due to sudden weather changes and crevasses in its extensive glaciers, one of the few remaining major glaciated areas in the Alps.

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::wheedance
07/22/08 7:35 PM GMT
This takes your breath away - you really captured the majesty!
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::jeenie11
07/22/08 7:38 PM GMT
OK, big guy, were you in a plane? or are you hanging from a rope somewhere with the family pulling on the other end? seriously, the shot is brilliant!!!! (i learned that expression in the UK).
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.Michael_Stack
07/22/08 10:23 PM GMT
Terrific shot! Compositionally magnificent. I wonder if you would end up with any blowouts if you bumped the contrast a little more to make the sky and the rocks pop? Overall, very well done!
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::cynlee
07/23/08 1:25 AM GMT
I think in the first shot, the clouds augment the drama of the massive glacier. In this shot, the glacier itself is more massively overwhelming in appearance and the clouds recede to the rear. Both wonderful ways of seeing the same mountain and I am guessing you were so impressed with her too that you have more than lots of photos!
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.Mythmaker
07/23/08 8:37 AM GMT
Mountain Lover here mate, I'll download as many as you upload! :)
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.Gabbels
07/23/08 10:44 AM GMT
Don't think I'll ever get bored of gorgeous mountain shots like this. It's absolutely breathtaking!
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::NL
07/23/08 5:21 PM GMT
Well great images of mountains never bore me at all, just the opposite is true, they are images i can dream away with. Specialy this is a good example here. It has great color saturation, great shadows that give dept. I like the steep rockface on the left. The trail to the top clearly shows, and is not snowed under at this moment still. near the top of the trail you can clearly see the coulour splitting and the trail leads west of it. Hope to see more images from the Wallis canton, since i am not to familiar in that corner of Swiss.
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::boremachine
07/23/08 7:22 PM GMT
me neither, bring 'em on Paul! *cheer*
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::third_eye
07/24/08 11:00 PM GMT
who could possibly find this place boring??

wonderful shot with great clarity and composition
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::100k_xle
07/26/08 3:31 AM GMT
Breathtaking Paul.
Thanks for sharing Monte Rosa II.

E J
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::JEdMc91
07/27/08 1:24 PM GMT
I agree with EJ! This is great and must have been nice to see it in person
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