Chamonix View Camera making wet plates in Tibet

Chamonix View Camera making wet plates in Tibet, documenting the fast disappering glaciers in Tibet.

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