Galen Rowell

I love mountain landscape photography and one of my favorite's is still the late Galen Rowell. Rowell sold his automobile repair business in 1972 and took the money to jump-start his adventures in mountain exploration and photography. He traveled all over Asia, but was especially drawn to Nepal and Tibet. His beautiful shots of mountains and monasteries always fascinated me, but I was especially taken by his photos of the people of the area. His many pictures of Buddhist ordained made me want to travel there. It still does.

He was also a highly regarded writer on subjects ranging from photography, humanitarian and environmental issues, human visual cognition, and mountaineering, publishing numerous magazine articles and eighteen books in his lifetime.

Rowell, his wife Barbara Cushman Rowell, pilot Tom Reid, and Reid's friend Carol McAffee were all killed in a plane crash near the Inyo County Airport in Bishop, California, on August 11, 2002.

Here's a link to his website where you can purchase prints of his work. By the way, the rainbow is real.