11,106 feet
14" by 52" | Available | Oil on linen
We were rewarded with one of the most stupendous panoramas in all America. Thousands of feet below us lay the icy gorge of Glacier [Cascade] Creek. Above all this towered the sharp cone of the Grand Teton, nearly 14,000 feet above sea level.
-William Henry Jackson, 1843 - 1942, American painter and surveyor
I’d spent the night on Table mountain 4 different times so that I could capture the evening and morning light. As an artist I was absolutely compelled by a description by Table Mountain’s first recorded ascentionist, William Henry Jackson. The photographer for the Geological survey of 1872 under Ferdinand Hayden, Jackson knew how to find a good view. He spied Table Mountain from Teton Canyon, where the party was camped, and made plans to photograph from its summit, the same day that Nathaniel Langford and a party of 13 would set out on their expedition to climb the Grand Teton.
Jackson hauled his very heavy camera equipment up Table Mountain with an assistant and the aid of a mule. Here is his description after this long, arduous climb: “We were rewarded with one of the most stupendous panoramas in all America. Thousands of feet below us lay the icy gorge of Glacier [Cascade] Creek. Above all this towered the sharp cone of the Grand Teton, nearly 14000 feet above sea level.” What artist would not be lured by that description? Indeed the view from Table Mountain does not disappoint, as hundreds of people who climb it every year would agree.
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