“I was certain of this at least: that nothing in the world except this was worth doing.”
Aleister Crowley, Mountaineer and Black Magician,1908
Except for a break between 1980 and 1985, I’ve climbed and backpacked nearly continuously my entire life. Amongst my greatest regrets is that, in more than 60 years of climbing, usually for reasons of speed but just as often for reasons of laziness and neglect – I didn’t take more photos. Consequently, these images represent a small portion of my experience and reflect not so much what was photo-worthy, though they all are, but rather those periods of time that I happened to have a camera. There are many photos of many climbs out there, taken by others. Those folks know who they are and if they stumble across my little site, it would be great to hear from them and swap images.
Miscellaneous Images
They Wore No Helmets (a video retrospective)
1963 Sentinel Rock, Southern Sierra
1967 Rocks above Chatsworth, California, Jeff Trigg
1969 Mt. Agassiz, solo
1971 Mt. Whitney w/ Bruce Pavlik and Don Kaspar
1972 Mount Shasta, Winter, w/Bruce Pavlik
1973 North Palisade, U-Notch, California w/Steve Dashe
1973 Mount Whitney, East Buttress w/Bruce Pavlik
1975 Bishop’s Balcony, Yosemite
1977 El Capitan, Yosemite, w/Bill Lester
1977 Yosemite, Katie Draher
1978 Lost Arrow Spire Yosemite, w/ Pete McGee
1978 El Capitan, The Nose, Yosemite w/ Dave McLellan
1978 East Quarter Dome, Yosemite, w/ Dave McLellan
1985 Needles, California, Belle Yang
1987 5.10c Hand Crack, Yosemite unroped solo
1987 Giant Sequoia Tree, Yosemite, w/Todd Hoitsma, Rob Warren, Bill Lester
1987 Middle Cathedral Rock, East Buttress w/Richard Lake
1988 Lamb Dome, Tuolomne, unroped solo
1988 Serenity Crack, Yosemite, unroped solo
1988 A Separate Reality, Yosemite
1988 South Face of Clyde Minaret, ,High Sierra w/Alfred Tao
1988 Royal Arches, Yosemite, w/Bill Lester, Felix Rigau
1989 South Face of Washington Column, Yosemite w/Bill Lester
1989 A Separate Reality, Yosemite
1991 Grand Teton, Exum Ridge Direct, w/Ingrid Nystrom
1992 Mt, Blanc, Aiguille Du Midi, Chamonix, France w/Ingrid Nystrom
1992 Middle Cathedral Rock, East Buttress w/Ingrid Nystrom
1992 Lost Arrow Spire, Yosemite, w/Ingrid Nystrom
1993 Matterhorn, N. Arete-Hornli Arete Traverse, Switzerland, unroped solo
1993 Mont Aiguille, Vercours Alps, France, unroped solo
1992 Climbing above Tenaya Lake, Tuolomne. w/Ingrid and Bill Lester
1992 Mono Lake Tufa Towers, Ingrid Nystrom
1994 North Face of Mt Atabasca, Alberta, unroped solo
1994 Pic Du Midi Ossau, French Pyrennees, w/Bill Lester
1994 Mount Robson, Alberta, unroped solo
1994 Cima Ovest, Italy, w/Sabine Farber
1994 The Eiger, Mittillegi Arete, Switzerland, w/Bill Lester
1994 Lost Arrow Spire, Yosemite, solo
1994 Steck-Salathe Route, Yosemite, w/Eric James
1994 Pic De Sant Cugat, Spain w/Bill Lester
1995 Castleton Tower, Utah w/Warren Griffin
1995 Barre Noire Couloir to Barre Des Ecrins, France, w/ Pam and Fredrique
1995 Lost Arrow Spire, Yosemite, w/Marta Prada
1995 Refugio Des Amitges, Spannish Pyrennees
1996 Corrugation Corner, Tahoe, California, unroped solo
1997 Castle Mountain, Alberta w/Martha
1997 Spain, Sierra Nevada and Pyrenees w/ Bill Lester
1999 South Crack, Tuolomne, w/Martha
2001 Mt Dana, California, w/Martha
2002 East Face of Mt. Whitney, High Sierra, w/Martha
2003 Martha at Ellery Lake, Tuolomne
2004 Iron Mountain Lake w/Martha, Reno and Sheila
2004 Cathedral Peak, Tuolomne, w/Martha and Robin
2004 Courtright Reservoir, Spring Dome w/Martha
2004 Shuteye Peak, Southern Yosemite, w Martha and Robin
2004 Hermaphrodite Flake, Tenaya Lake, Yosemite w/Martha and Robin
2004 Ribbon Falls, Yosemite
2004 “CS Concerto”, Yosemite Valley, w/Martha
2004 Sierra Point, Yosemite, w/Martha and Robin
2004 Willow Creek w/Martha
2004 Yosemite Point w/Martha and Robin
2016 Mt. Whitney, East Face, unroped solo