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Galen Rowell
Born
Galen Avery Rowell

August 23, 1940 (1940-08-23)[1]
Oakland, California
DiedAugust 11, 2002(2002-08-11) (aged 61)
Bishop, California
NationalityAmerican
EducationBerkeley 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.

  1. ^ Lewis, Paul (August 14, 2002). "Galen Rowell, Mountaineer And Nature Photographer, 61". The New York Times. p. 20. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  2. ^ Osius, Alison (2009). "The Vertical World of Galen Rowell". Rock and Ice. Archived from the original on May 30, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2012.

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December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Nature photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken"...

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climbed via the southwest ridge on April 22, 1982, by Vern Clevenger, Galen Rowell, John Roskelley, Bill O'Connor and Peter Hackett. The north face was...

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the time to be summited without bottled oxygen. In the summer of 1977, Galen Rowell organized a 6-man expedition to Great Trango Tower, a 20,623-foot unclimbed...

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technical climbs. 1977 South Face. Great Trango was first climbed in 1977 by Galen Rowell, John Roskelley, Kim Schmitz, Jim Morrissey, and Dennis Hennek by a route...

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Anatoli Boukreev

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climbing clients on the Mountain Madness expedition survived the ordeal. Galen Rowell described Boukreev's rescue efforts in the Wall Street Journal as: One...

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El Capitan

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3, 2017. Robbins, Royal (1995) [1973]. "The North America Wall". In Galen Rowell (ed.). The Vertical World of Yosemite. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press...

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Jimmy Chin

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unsupported crossing of the remote Chang Tang Plateau in Tibet with Galen Rowell, Rick Ridgeway and Conrad Anker. The expedition was featured in National...

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an unsupported crossing of the remote Changtang Plateau in Tibet with Galen Rowell, Rick Ridgeway and Jimmy Chin. The expedition was featured in National...

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Todd Skinner

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North face of Mt. Hooker, Wind River Range, Wyoming. With Paul Piana, Galen Rowell and Tim Toula. 1992 – The Great Canadian Knife (VI 5.13b), Cirque of...

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Landscape

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nature photography. Notable landscape photographers include Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, Edward Weston, Ben Heine, Mark Gray and Fred Judge. The earliest forms...

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Half Dome

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First "clean ascent" of NW face by Dennis Hennek, Doug Robinson, and Galen Rowell, Hennek is on the cover of June 1974 National Geographic leading a nut...

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pilot were also killed. On 11 August 2002 photographer Galen Rowell, his wife Barbara Cushman Rowell, pilot Tom Reid and Reid's friend Carol McAffee were...

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Yogamaya

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Attraction". www.vindhyachalmandir.com. 19 March 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023. Galen Rowell; John Everingham; Jim Goodman (1997). Pokhara in the shadow of the Annapurnas...

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Jon Krakauer

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experienced mountaineers thought about the facts of Boukreev's performance. As Galen Rowell from the American Alpine Journal wrote to Krakauer, "the fact [is] that...

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John McPhee

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ISBN 0871562901 Selections from Coming into the Country. Photographs by Galen Rowell. Basin and Range 1981 New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-374-10914-1...

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roughly 172,000 regular subscribers. Regular contributors have included Galen Rowell, Frans Lanting, Dewitt Jones, William Neill, Amy Gulick, Justin Black...

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14th Dalai Lama

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1990, ISBN 978-0-349-10462-1 My Tibet, co-authored with photographer Galen Rowell, 1990, ISBN 978-0-520-08948-8 The Path to Enlightenment. Ed. and trans...

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International Campaign for Tibet

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2002 deaths of ICT Co-chair Galen Rowell and his wife, Barbara Rowell, the ICT Board of Directors established the Rowell Fund. The Fund gives small grants...

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Rongbuk Monastery

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was left in ruins for several years, as recorded by photo-journalist Galen Rowell in 1981. The monastery's vast treasury of books and costumes, which had...

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Chuck Pratt

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ISBN 0-87156-292-8. Pratt, Chuck (1973). "The South Face of Mount Watkins". In Galen Rowell (ed.). The Vertical World of Yosemite. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press...

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