Mountainside Collection

The Pilatus Railway - Approach to the Eselwand tunnel
The Pilatus Railway (Pilatusbahn, PB) - a mountain railway in Switzerland, the steepest rack railway in the world. Approach to the Eselwand tunnel. Date: 1902

Basalt columns on a mountainside in Westphalia, Germany. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828

Confession of Japanese Penitents
Confession of Japanese penitents ( a person repenting their sins). If the penitents fail to make a proper confession, the priest causes the balance to project them down the mountainside. Date: 1844

The Three Crosses at Calvarienberg, Austria. Date: circa 1910s

Cows on the mountain - Swiss Alpine Valley, Switzerland. circa 1909

INDUSTRIAL WINDMILL
A windmill in the Glacier National Park which gives power to a sawmill used by Native American Indians to cut the timber felled from the mountainside, USA. Date: 1940s

Murren Mountain Funicular Railway - Switzerland. The original Lauterbrunnen-Murren Mountain Railway opened in 1891 - it connects Lauterbrunnen with traffic-free Murren. Date: circa 1930

Switchback on the Great Northern Railway, Washington State
A switchback section of the Great Northern Railway in the Cascade Mountains. It consists of a series of zigzags up the mountainside

Switzerland - Switchback turn on the Sustenstrasse, built between 1938-1945 - in the Cantons of Bern & Uri. Date: circa 1940s

Gediminas Tower. Vilnius. Lithuania
Lithuania. Vilnius. Gediminas tower, restored in 20th century. Only remaining part of the Upper Castle

Ukraine. Crimean Peninsula. Balaklava
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Balaklava. Panorama from Chembalos genoese fortress

Ukraine. Balaklava. Chembalo Fortress
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Balaklava. Medieval Chembalos genoese fortress. Detail

Norwegian Glacier
The Kjendalsbrae glacier in Norway moving slowly down the mountainside Date: 1905

Zermatt, Switzerland - the distinctive shape of Matterhorn
Zermatt, Switzerland - the distinctive shape of the Matterhorn in the distance. In Visp, a district in the Canton of Valais in southern Switzerland. Date: 1906

Lycian rock tombs - Fethiye, Turkey
Lycian rock tombs of Telmessos - Fethiye, Turkey Date: circa 1930s

1922 British Mt Everest Expedition - Shekar Monastery
1922 British Mount Everest Expedition - Shekar Monastery Date: 1922

Buildings on mountainside, c. 1870
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Buildings and figures on mountainside
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

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