Harrison Schmitt at Tracy's Rock, station 6, EVA 3, 7-19 December 1972

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1972, numbered "NASA A17-140-21496" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with dedication by Harrison Schmitt to NASA legend chief of photography: "To Dick Underwood/Many thanks and best wishes for the future!/Jack Schmitt/Apollo 17", with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 25,4 x 20,3 cm

A superb frame of the panoramic sequence taken at station 6, which was located on the south slope of the North Massif, 50 m above the floor of the Valley of Taurus-Littrow.
The large split boulder located at this station was named Tracy’s Rock, in honor of Eugene Cernan’s daughter.
The East Massif (left) and Bear Mountain (right) form the skyline in the background.

“A panorama of lunar history is captured in this view looking south over the Valley of Taurus-Littrow. A huge fragmented boulder had rolled almost a mile down the side of the North Massif to here, Station 6 on our traverse. Our LM and its light area of surface alteration can be seen on the photo about an inch to the right of the top point of the boulder. That’s me at the left. Note the marks of my sampling scoop on the debris resting on a slanting surface of the boulder at left.”
Harrison Schmitt (NASA SP-350, pp. 284-285)

From the mission transcript when the photograph was taken (at T+165:34:53 after launch):
165:33:38 Cernan: I just got to get a place I can get a pan from. Right here. Right in this little hole. (Pause) (Gesturing) Okay, now I left the gnomon down there.
165:33:50 Schmitt: Okay. I’ll have to go get it. (Pause) I think we’ll set up right here near the Rover. [...]
165:34:53 Cernan: Oh, and there’s Challenger! Holy Smoley! You know, Jack, when we finish with Station 8, we will have covered this whole valley from corner to corner!
165:35:18 Schmitt: That was the idea.

Literature:
TIME, 8 January 1973, p. 38; NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, December 1973, pp. 298-299; Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, p. 133; A Man on the Moon: lunar explorers, Chaikin, pp. 272-73; Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon, Reynolds, pp.208-09.