High and Wild: Essays on Wilderness Adventure - Softcover

Rowell, Galen

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9780938530213: High and Wild: Essays on Wilderness Adventure

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ISBN 10: 0938530216 ISBN 13: 9780938530213

Publisher: Lexikos Pub, 1983

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Rowell, Galen

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About the Author:

Galen Rowell made nearly forty journeys to the mountains of Nepal, India, Pakistan, China, Tibet, Africa, Alaska, Canada, Siberia, New Zealand, Norway, Patagonia, and participated on major expeditions to Mount Everest, K2, and Gasherbrum II (not to the summit). He made the first one-day ascents of Mount McKinley in Alaska, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, first ascents of Cholatse, the Great Trango Tower, and a 285-mile winter traverse of the Karakoram in the Himalaya.

Galen Rowell was born and raised at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, in Berkeley, along San Francisco’s East Bay. His parents introduced him to the wilderness of the Eastern Sierra, first on Sierra Club pack trips.

At the age of ten, he scaled his first Sierra peaks and quickly developed a passion for the country he found there. Eventually, he made his way to Yosemite Valley and at the age of sixteen was making technical ascents on the great walls. By the time he was thirty, he made more than a hundred first ascents in Yosemite and the High Sierra.

To share his high and wild world with others, Galen started carrying a camera on his climbs and by 1972, he became a full-time photographer and writer.

Among his numerous awards, Galen received the Ansel Adams Award for his contributions to the art of wilderness photography. He was considered by many to be America’s greatest outdoor photographer.

His articles and photographs have appeared in numerous publications including Life, National Geographic, and Outside. His photographs have been exhibited in both domestic and international venues including the Smithsonian, the International Center of Photography and the Ansel Adams Gallery.

Review:

"A beautiful tribute to Galen." -- Ed Webster, author, Snow in the Kingdom, My Storm Years on Everest

Elegant edition...the preface and photographic notes have the uncanny and heartbreaking effect of Rowell speaking to us from beyond. -- American Alpine Club

High & Wild is a book to be read again and again and to feast on in times of despair. -- Charles S. Houston, M.D., Leader 1938, 1953 American K2 Expeditions

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