On Nov 5, 2013, at 12:08 AM, David Mann wrote: > On Nov 5, 2013, at 4:47 pm, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 04/11/2013 7:49 PM, Jack Davis wrote: >>> I thought Galen to be a Nikon bigot and employed a swaggering literary >>> style. I wrote and told him that some years prior to his death. >> Galen Rowell is dead? That's very sad. He was a good photographer. > > Yes, both he and his wife were killed in a light-plane crash several years > ago. IIRC something went wrong during landing. > > I'm another fan of his... I borrowed Mountain Light from the library a long > time ago and decided to buy a copy, only to find that it was out of print. > > Cheers, > Dave >
As a climber and photographer Rowell was an inspiration for me. Not in the sense that "someday I want to be like him", because he was so far beyond me that I couldn't imagine getting to that level myself myself. More in the sense that it was empowering to see someone do good work and make a good living and enjoy himself throughout. He was one of the best mountain-travel writers of his day, the best mountain-scape photographer of his day, and he did it from the inside. He wasn't just passing through; he lived in those scenes. I was quite saddened when I heard about his accident a few years ago. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
