• Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002) was a wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and mountaineer. Born in Oakland, California...
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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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  • Cap, Yosemite, CA, with Galen Rowell and Joe Faint. 1969 Firefall Face, Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, CA, with Galen Rowell. 1970 South Face Route,...
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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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    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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  • years. Son of Jonathan H. Rowell and nephew of Dr. Chester A. Rowell Fred Rowell (1918–1988), English footballer Galen Rowell (1940–2002), noted wilderness...
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  • Hollenbaugh (fl. 2006–present), American politician Galen Laack (1931–1958), American football player Galen Rowell (1940–2002), American wilderness photographer...
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  • some of the climb's participants and from fellow mountaineers such as Galen Rowell. Much of the criticism centers on Krakauer's account of how Anatoli Boukreev...
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    nature photographers include Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Frans Lanting, Galen Rowell, and Art Wolfe. Landscape photography is one of the categories of photography...
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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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    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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    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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    graduated ND filters was popularized by Galen Rowell. Singh-Ray sold them as "The Singh-Ray set of 4 Galen Rowell Graduated Neutral-Density Filters." Although...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • with rarely seen images from prominent nature photographers, including Galen Rowell, Peter Beard, Ansel Adams, and Frank Smythe. "Statistics of 7 summits...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • mixing Bernie Grundman – mastering Pete Angelus – concept, cover design Galen Rowell – photography Vigon Seireeni – artwork Gina Vivona – artwork Eddie Anderson...
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    was photographed by Ansel Adams in 1940, but made more widely-known by Galen Rowell who photographed it for the National Geographic in 1973. Viewing of the...
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  • Bay Area, Galen Rowell and Michael Sewell (2001) The Winemaker's Marsh: Four Seasons in a Restored Wetland, Kenneth Brower (2006) Galen Rowell: A Retrospective...
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  • the Tragic Expedition". 1977 First Ascent of Great Trango Tower with Galen Rowell, Dennis Hennek, Kim Schmitz and Jim Morrissey. 1978 Northeast Ridge/East...
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  • Gray Thompson 1970 Charlotte Dome, South Face III 5.7, FA: Chris Jones, Galen Rowell, and Fred Beckey. One of the Fifty Classic Climbs of North America 1971...
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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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  • photographic career as assistant to author and National Geographic photographer Galen Rowell. In 1997 Schafer received the Gerald Durrell award from the Wildlife...
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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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