Photograph of Albert Ellingwood, Elmina Buhl and Carl Blaurock sitting on the rocks just below the cairn at the summits of Gannett Peak, Ellingwood writing on a slip of paper, their ice axes leaning against rocks in the background.
A man with a knapsack and rope tied around his waist stands on a snow precipice, back to the camera. Below him another man holds one end of the rope with one hand and his ice axe in the snow with his other hand.