Mountain Light

In Search of the Dynamic Landscape

Galen Rowell (1940 – 2002)

1986 First Edition. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco
Silver letters on full black cloth, blind stamped with design on the front. In FINE condition with a like dust jacket protected in Brodart cover. 224pp. Rowell won the Sierra Club’s Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Award for 1977 and Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography in 1984. His In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods about the history of mountaineering on K2 (1977) is considered a classic of mountaineering literature, and his 1986 book Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape is one of the best selling how-to photo books of all time.