Trio Grande, Above the Clouds

Aerial fine art photograph by Jürg Kaufmann showing La Sella and Piz Glüschaint rising above a sea of clouds in the Bernina Range, with Monte Disgrazia on the horizon, taken from a helicopter in December 2025 over the Engadin, Switzerland.

Trio Grande, Above the Clouds

A sea of cloud spreads beneath the helicopter like white silk drawn taut across the Engadin. La Sella and Piz Glüschaint rise through it — twin sentinels of granite and ice, close enough to read every ridge, every fracture of glacial blue. Beyond them, solitary and immense, Monte Disgrazia holds the southern horizon with the quiet authority of a mountain that answers to no range. December light, low and crystalline, renders the snow in shades of cold silver. The world below has vanished. What remains is altitude, silence, and the architecture of stone against an infinite sky.

La Sella

  • Height — 3 584 m / 11 759 ft

  • First Ascent — not formally recorded in alpine literature

  • Coordinates — 46° 21' 30" N, 9° 50' 50" E

  • Range — Bernina Range, Engadin / Val Malenco

Piz Glüschaint

  • Height — 3 594 m / 11 791 ft

  • First Ascent — via NE flank from Chamanna Coaz (date not formally recorded)

  • Coordinates — 46° 21' 45" N, 9° 50' 24" E

  • Range — Bernina Range, Engadin / Val Malenco

Monte Disgrazia

  • Height — 3 678 m / 12 067 ft

  • First Ascent — 23 August 1862, Leslie Stephen, E.S. Kennedy, Thomas Cox, with guide Melchior Anderegg

  • Coordinates — 46° 16' 10" N, 9° 44' 58" E

  • Range — Bregaglia Range, Val Masino / Val Malenco

The Edition

Limited to 15 signed originals and 2 Artist's Proofs — across all formats and dimensions. Once complete, no further originals will be produced.

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Diasec face-mount and alternative substrates available on request. Available up to 350 cm width.

Individually produced and hand-signed. Framing consultation and large-format installation guidance included.

Each original accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity.

 
 

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