Concord Sunday Monitor
"An astonishing look at a lifetime of rugged landscapes."

Outdoor Explorer
Bradford Washburns mountain photographs just may change the way you look at mountains, and at yourself.

Rock & Ice magazine
Some of the best photographs from Washburns career...

(Worcester, MA Sunday Telegram)
Offers a spectacular glimpse of the high places of the world through the eyes of a most remarkable man.

Audubon
"...With striking clarity, he captures the uniqueness of individual peaks, as well as the grandeur of alpine ranges."

Book Description
Traveling the world for eight decades, mountaineer, explorer, cartographer, and aerial photographer Bradford Washburn has documented the landscape from the Grand Canyon to the Alps, from Mount McKinley to Mount Everest. Genius has inspired him to pioneer photographic techniques that capture the most remote and inaccessible points on earth under conditions worthy of a stunt man. Genius has also transformed his photos-conceived for a purely functional purpose-into works of expressive art. Now the career of America's most celebrated mountain photographer is presented for the first time in book form. In Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography, one hundred large-format mountain photographs, selected from more than 10,000 images, take the reader through Washburn's lifetime of accomplishments. Aerial images of high mountains, looking more like bold relief maps, are captured in extreme raking light. There are picture essays of early Alaskan expeditions-striking modern still lifes of supply caches and camp conditions-plus portraits of team members and colorful characters and situations encountered along the way. Additional aerial photographs reveal, in breathtaking clarity, the workings of the earth, continuously transformed by upheavals and erosions, and the slow march and retreat of glaciers.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

An astonishing look at a lifetime of rugged landscapes seen through the lens of the vigorous 89-year-old.

FROM THE CRITICS

Rock & Ice

Brings together some of the best photographs from Washburn's career as a mountaineer, cartographer, and aerial photographer—Ultimately, the portrait of the man behind the lens is at least as inspiring as the photographs themselves.

Worcester (MA) Sunday Telegram

Offers a spectacular glimpse of the high places of the world through the eyes of a most remarkable man.

Audubon

The technical excellence of the documentary photographs from which his maps derived underwrote a transcendental wilderness art equal to that of Ansel Adams, whose advice "to expose for the shadows and then to develop for the highlights" Washburn put to good use. With striking clarity, he captures the uniqueness of individual peaks....as well as the grandeur of alpine ranges.

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