The 11x 13 ½ deluxe edition, 109 black-and-white duotone photographs and 190 pages, includes an 11x 46 fold-out panorama of the Biafo Glacier and maps to introduce the separate portfolios. The photographs were taken on twelve Himalayan trips between 1986 and 2005 using an old fashioned 4x5 Toyo view camera mounted on a sturdy wooden tripod. Foreword by Greg Mortenson, co-author of the New York Times best seller, Three Cups of Tea; One Man's Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time; founder of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute.

The book includes an essay that examines the place of photography in the Himalayan experience. The essay is concerned with the presence of Himalayan Buddhism, the evolution of mountaineering and with the mountain sublime. The Himalayas are an emblem of the ultimate challenge and the final passage between life and death. Noted mountaineer Doug Chabot has provided a foreword to the essay that describes the ideals of alpine-style mountaineering.

A donation of $5 from the sale of each book will go to the Central Asia Institute which promotes community based education and literary programs, especially for girls, in remote mountain regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan (web site: www.ikat.org.)

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