Seattle, 1999, 1st edition. 144 pp, 165 b/w photos. Large format hardcover with dust jacket. Like New.
This book is SIGNED on the title page by Bradford Washburn. No other writing is in the book which is like New. We sold it to Alan in 1999 and he sold it back to us in 2024.
This is from a cache of copies of the first edition that we purchased New from the publisher, the Mountaineers, in 1999. We went to Boston and visited with Brad and Barbara several times in the last decade of his life, when he was very pleased that his books were selling well. After book signings we would go out to Friendly's Ice Cream parlor where he would get a Strawberry Sunday, his favorite.
Brad died 2 years and one day before Edmund Hillary. Brad was ten years older than Ed, too young for WWI and too old for WWII. So in WWII he was young enough to teach climbing and test gearon Denali for the US Army. In 1942 Brad was still only 32 years old.
As this book is large and heavy, extra postage will be requested for Media Mail, Priority Mail or International Mail.
Bradford Washburn's mountaineering and photographic accomplishments are unparalleled in the annals of climbing. A superb collections of his photos.
* This retrospective corresponded with a traveling exhibit of Washburn's photography, debuting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
* Stunning black and white images from one of America's greatest photographic talents.
* Includes an intimate interview with Bradford Washburn.
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.
An in-depth Washburn interview by Antony Decaneas brings a voice to the life portrayed in images. Also included is an extensive, unique chronology of the major events in Washburn's life and career, illustrated with 40 additional images.
Selected Alaskan first ascents of Bradford Washburn 1933: Pointed Peak, Fairweather Range, Saint Elias Mountains 1934: East Ridge above the Plateau Mount Crillon, Fairweather Range, Alaska, USA. FA with H. Adams Carter, summit attained July 19, 1934.[17] 1937: Mount Lucania, Saint Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada 1938: Mount Marcus Baker, Chugach Mountains 1938: Mount Sanford, Wrangell Mountains 1940: Mount Bertha, Fairweather Range, Saint Elias Mountains[1] 1941: Mount Hayes, Alaska Range[1] 1944: Mount Deception, Alaska Range 1947: McGonagall Mountain, Alaska Range 1951: Denali, West Buttress Route Alaska Range 1951: Kahiltna Dome, Alaska Range 1955: Mount Dickey, Alaska Range
