To the ends of the earth
Subtitle: adventures of an expedition photographer
By: Gordon Wiltsie
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393060287
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Travel; Pictorial works; Travel photography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Alex Lowe; title: Getting started : 1952-1979; title: Innocents at altitude : learning expedition ropes, Baruntse Peak, Nepal, 1980; title: Wings under the world : unlocking the heart of Antarctica, 1988-1989; title: Mountains of fog and fury : traversing terra incognita, Cordillera Sarmiento, Chile, 1992; title: The old man and his mountain : an octogenarian revisits the trans-Antarctic mountains, 1994; title: Chasing the indomitable will: across the Arctic Ocean, 1995; title: Scaling the razor : Rakekniven, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, 1997; title: Lost tombs of the ancients : sleuthing pre-Incan secrets, Rio Huabayacu, Peru, 1999; title: A month on a polar wall : Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, Canada, 1998; title: In the footsteps of Genghis Khan : a migration over ancient trails, Darhad Valley, Mongolia, 2002.