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Longs Peak Diamond face Rocky Mountain National Park Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
A thousand-foot wall of pale granite at the head of Chasm Lake. The east face of Longs Peak, set back behind a ledge climbers call Broadway. The Diamond catches the morning before the valley does. A few minutes of pink and gold on cold rock at fourteen thousand feet. Climbers come in July and August when the snow has gone and the route is dry. From the lake below, the wall reads as a single sheet, no obvious break. The first ascent was in August 1960, by two climbers who took three days. It still looks the way it did then.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.