Wilderness photographer, mountaineer, and author (1940–2002)
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Galen Rowell
Born
Galen Avery Rowell
August 23, 1940 (1940-08-23)[1]
Oakland, California
Died
August 11, 2002(2002-08-11) (aged 61)
Bishop, California
Nationality
American
Education
Berkeley High School
Occupation(s)
Photographer, Climber
Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002) was a wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and mountaineer.[2] Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972.
^Lewis, Paul (August 14, 2002). "Galen Rowell, Mountaineer And Nature Photographer, 61". The New York Times. p. 20. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
^Osius, Alison (2009). "The Vertical World of Galen Rowell". Rock and Ice. Archived from the original on May 30, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002) was a wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and mountaineer. Born in Oakland, California...
December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Nature photographer GalenRowell described it as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken"...
nature photographers include Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Frans Lanting, GalenRowell, and Art Wolfe. Landscape photography is one of the categories of photography...
climbed via the southwest ridge on April 22, 1982, by Vern Clevenger, GalenRowell, John Roskelley, Bill O'Connor and Peter Hackett. The north face was...
some of the climb's participants and from fellow mountaineers such as GalenRowell. Much of the criticism centers on Krakauer's account of how Anatoli Boukreev...
years. Son of Jonathan H. Rowell and nephew of Dr. Chester A. Rowell Fred Rowell (1918–1988), English footballer GalenRowell (1940–2002), noted wilderness...
the time to be summited without bottled oxygen. In the summer of 1977, GalenRowell organized a 6-man expedition to Great Trango Tower, a 20,623-foot unclimbed...
technical climbs. 1977 South Face. Great Trango was first climbed in 1977 by GalenRowell, John Roskelley, Kim Schmitz, Jim Morrissey, and Dennis Hennek by a route...
climbing clients on the Mountain Madness expedition survived the ordeal. GalenRowell described Boukreev's rescue efforts in the Wall Street Journal as: One...
3, 2017. Robbins, Royal (1995) [1973]. "The North America Wall". In GalenRowell (ed.). The Vertical World of Yosemite. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press...
unsupported crossing of the remote Chang Tang Plateau in Tibet with GalenRowell, Rick Ridgeway and Conrad Anker. The expedition was featured in National...
an unsupported crossing of the remote Changtang Plateau in Tibet with GalenRowell, Rick Ridgeway and Jimmy Chin. The expedition was featured in National...
North face of Mt. Hooker, Wind River Range, Wyoming. With Paul Piana, GalenRowell and Tim Toula. 1992 – The Great Canadian Knife (VI 5.13b), Cirque of...
nature photography. Notable landscape photographers include Ansel Adams, GalenRowell, Edward Weston, Ben Heine, Mark Gray and Fred Judge. The earliest forms...
First "clean ascent" of NW face by Dennis Hennek, Doug Robinson, and GalenRowell, Hennek is on the cover of June 1974 National Geographic leading a nut...
pilot were also killed. On 11 August 2002 photographer GalenRowell, his wife Barbara Cushman Rowell, pilot Tom Reid and Reid's friend Carol McAffee were...
Attraction". www.vindhyachalmandir.com. 19 March 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023. GalenRowell; John Everingham; Jim Goodman (1997). Pokhara in the shadow of the Annapurnas...
experienced mountaineers thought about the facts of Boukreev's performance. As GalenRowell from the American Alpine Journal wrote to Krakauer, "the fact [is] that...
ISBN 0871562901 Selections from Coming into the Country. Photographs by GalenRowell. Basin and Range 1981 New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-10914-1...
roughly 172,000 regular subscribers. Regular contributors have included GalenRowell, Frans Lanting, Dewitt Jones, William Neill, Amy Gulick, Justin Black...
1990, ISBN 978-0-349-10462-1 My Tibet, co-authored with photographer GalenRowell, 1990, ISBN 978-0-520-08948-8 The Path to Enlightenment. Ed. and trans...
2002 deaths of ICT Co-chair GalenRowell and his wife, Barbara Rowell, the ICT Board of Directors established the Rowell Fund. The Fund gives small grants...
was left in ruins for several years, as recorded by photo-journalist GalenRowell in 1981. The monastery's vast treasury of books and costumes, which had...
ISBN 0-87156-292-8. Pratt, Chuck (1973). "The South Face of Mount Watkins". In GalenRowell (ed.). The Vertical World of Yosemite. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press...