Reference Number: NM113
A stunning account of pioneering modern photography and modern portraiture, with new commissions from leading photographers and alpinists alongside historic treasures from the world’s finest collections.
Featuring historic treasures from the world’s finest mountain collections, alongside the very best of modern imagery by veteran expeditioner Gordon Wiltsie, superlative climbing photographer Glen Denny, and exciting young alpinist Cory Richards, among many other contributors.
A visual celebration of those who have risen to the challenge of the highest mountains on earth. Come face to face with those who have spent their lives at altitude; explorers and pioneering travellers, intrepid ice-climbers and extreme skiers, ecologists, innovators, photographers and film-makers, and a range of people who make their home among the hills. It’s a story of endurance, enterprise, heroism and fellowship in the wildest of places, best capturing the spirit of human achievement and adventure.
Within the pages of this stunning new book, meet an epic group of characters drawn to the mountains to find something of life; people who have been inspired by the wilderness to write, to create, to discover, to dare and to dream.
Featuring: • Doug Scott • Marko Prezelj • Reinhold Messner • Sir Edmund Hillary • Steph Davis • Tom Hornbeim • Galen Rowell • Conrad Kain • Kurt Diemberger • Edward Whymper • Eric Shipton • George Mallory • Alex Lowe • Tenzing Norgay • Catherine Destivelle • Ricardo Cassin • Peter Habeler • Stephan Siegrist • Kenton Cool • Yvon Chouinard • Lynn Hill • Pat Morrow • Denis Urubko • Candide Thovex • Maurice Herzog • Apa Sherpa • Ueli Steck • Steve House, and many more…
