High & Wild: Essays and Photographs
on Wilderness Adventure
Galen Rowell
Galen began climbing mountains at the age of 10 and by age 60, had completed more than 40 expeditions on all seven continents and to both poles. He made more than a hundred first ascents in Yosemite and the High Sierra.
In 1992 he received a National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Grant to photograph Antarctica. His photographs have been exhibited in both domestic and international venues including the Smithsonian, the International Center of Photography and the Ansel Adams Gallery.
Before his untimely death in a plane crash in 2002, Galen touched many lives around the world with his photographs and fabulous stories.
Galen Rowell was a good friend and we miss him.