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Synopsis
Come face to face in this collection of portraits with those who have spent their lives at altitude: explorers and mapmakers, pioneering travellers and film-makers, ice climbers and extreme skiers, geologists and glaciologists, and the peoples of the mountains themselves.
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From the Back Cover
A stunning account of pioneering mountain photography and modern portraiture, with new commisions from leading photographers and alpinists alongside historic treasures from the world's finest collections.
Featuring:
Doug Scott - Marko Prezelj - Reinhold Messner - Sir Edmund Hillary - Steph Davis - Tom Hornbein
Galen Rowell - Conrad Kain - Kurt Diemberger - Edward Whymper - Eric Shipton - George Mallory
Alex Lowe - Tenzing Norgay - Catherine Destivelle - Riccardo 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...
About the Author
Dr. Huw Lewis-Jones is a historian, art director, and editor from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of "Polar Portraits" and "Ocean Portraits "in his acclaimed "Face to Face" global photography series. Formerly curator at the National Maritime Museum in London and the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, Huw writes and lectures widely about exploration and the visual arts.
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- PublisherConway Maritime Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1844861392
- ISBN 13 9781844861392
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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