num_pages: 192
description: Jim Herrington's photographs have appeared in Vanity Fair Rolling Stone Esquire and GQ as well as on scores of album covers but for nearly two decades he has been working on a portrait series of influential climbers. The result is The Climbers a collection of sixty black-and-white photographs that document these rugged individualists including the likes of Royal Robbins Reinhold Messner and Yvon Chouinard. Between the 1930s and 1970s determined men and women used primitive gear along with their considerable wits talent and fortitude to tackle un-scaled peaks around the world. In these images Herrington has captured their humanity obsession intellect and frailty. Includes an essay by Greg Child and a foreword by Alex Honnold.
language: English
title: The Climbers
publisher: Mountaineers Books