Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1881 [Twenty-sixth] Photographic Society of Great Britain Exhibition
- Exhibit title:
- Chimborazo, distant fifteen miles
- Exhibitor:
- Edward Whymper
- Group Title:
- Selections from the Views Taken Among the Great Andes of Ecuador in 1879-80. Taken on Gelatine Plates and Developed on the Spot
- Exhibit No.:
- 542
- Description:
- The height of Chimborazo (long accounted to be the loftiest mountain in the world) has been determined by Mr. Whymper to be 20,517 feet. The view is taken a little to the north of the town of Guaranda, at a height of 9,250 feet, and shows the side of the mountain on which the first ascent was made.
- Exhibit type:
- Photograph
- Process:
- Gelatine Plate, Autotype Enlargement (Negative Print)
- Award:
- none
