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.
Born and raised at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, in Berkeley, along San Francisco’s East Bay, Rowell's 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, Rowell started carrying a camera on his climbs and by 1972, he became a full-time photographer and writer.
Among his numerous awards, Rowell 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.
With new essays and Rowell's wilderness and mountaineering photographs, this special edition of High & Wild: Essays and Photographs on Wilderness Adventure was edited by Rowell and includes over 100 of his most spectacular shots of the Eastern Sierra, classic climbing photographs, new introductions to each of the "classic" chapters, and his mountain adventures from Zion to Pakistan with America's greatest climbers including Warren Harding, Yvon Chouinard, and Fred Beckey.
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Born
Free and Equal
Ansel Adams
Climbing
Mt. Whitney
Peter Croft, Glen Dawson
Close
Ups of the High Sierra
Norman Clyde
Death
Valley to Yosemite: Frontier Mining Camps and Ghost Towns
L. Burr Belden & Mary DeDecker
Desert
Summits
Andy Zdon
Favorite
Dog Hikes In and Around Las Vegas
Wynne Benti & Megan Lawlor
Favorite
Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles
Wynne Benti
Grand
Canyon Treks
Harvey Butchart
High
and Wild: Essays and Photographs on Wilderness Adventure
Galen Rowell
Mojave
Desert Trails
Florine Lawlor
Out
From Las Vegas
Florine Lawlor
The
Secret Sierra: The Alpine World Above the Trees
David Gilligan
Robert
Clunie: Plein Air Painter
of the Sierra
Richard Coons
High
& Wild:
Essays and Photographs on Wilderness Adventure
224 pages, 7" x 10" hardcover/dust jacket
100 + color photographs
23 chapters
ISBN 1-893343-05-7
$34.95