- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.; illustrated edition edition (20 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0393060284
- ISBN-13: 978-0393060287
- Product Dimensions: 2.8 x 2.3 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 552,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Renowned as one of the world's foremost expedition photographers, Gordon Wiltsie has climbed Himalayan mountains, mushed dogs on the frozen Arctic Ocean, skied in Antarctica and hacked through the Amazon jungle to photograph the most remote reaches of the planet. For three decades he has accompanied many of the great explorers - Alex Lowe, Conrad Anker, Will Steger, Jon Krakauer, David Breashears, Norman Vaughan - on challenging climbs and epic adventures. Despite carrying his own share of the weight - along with cameras, film and lenses - he has matched these companions pitch for pitch and mile for mile, photographing them at every stage on the way. In this journey through ten of his most challenging and exhilarating expeditions, through stories and images Wiltsie illustrates the daily life of an explorer.
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Gordon Wiltsie, an award-winning National Geographic photographer whose career spans thirty years, has circled the globe to find the last, greatest unexplored places.
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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Amazing pictures,
Gordon Wiltsie went to the most amazing spots.
He followed the most amazing adventurers.
Gordon Wiltsie went to the most amazing spots.
He followed the most amazing adventurers.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Superb Images.
24 Oct 2006
Format:Hardcover
This collection of images and stories is as compelling as any I've seen. Many will know Wiltsie's photographs from his mountaineering expeditions, and his photos here of the late Alex Lowe, Conrad Anker, and many others in dramatic action offer plenty on that count. But Wiltsie is one of the best "travel" photographers going, catching ordinary people from the far reaches of the planet in traditional dress and situations. Each is a fascinating study in itself. Wiltsie is a better photographer than writer, and almost all of the narratives--candid and spicy as they are--could be fuller and more detailed, for certainly the stories give the images their vital context. My greatest desideratum for this book was only that it include more: more words, more of those amazing photographs.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A lifetime's experience
29 Dec 2006
Format:Hardcover
Gordon Wiltsie takes us to the ends of the earth and gives us a glimpse of the reality of expedition life; unlike other "adventure travel" books this one makes it clear that there is a huge amount of arduous labor, and often not much glory, involved. It's also apparent that he, if not his companions, truly enjoyed the inevitable unexpected challenges, and even the hardship and discomfort, of such trips.
Wiltsie's photographs are spectacular. While reading the book I continually wondered how he made some of these images ("how-the-hell-did-he-do-that?"). Which raises a minor complaint, I would have loved to have read more about the technical details of the author's workday in the field, as well as some technical detail about the photos.
Wiltsie's writing is clear, expressive, and warm; his self-effacing tone belies his athletic, technical, and artistic proficiency. I have to agree with a previous reviewer, more pictures and text are called for.
Wiltsie's photographs are spectacular. While reading the book I continually wondered how he made some of these images ("how-the-hell-did-he-do-that?"). Which raises a minor complaint, I would have loved to have read more about the technical details of the author's workday in the field, as well as some technical detail about the photos.
Wiltsie's writing is clear, expressive, and warm; his self-effacing tone belies his athletic, technical, and artistic proficiency. I have to agree with a previous reviewer, more pictures and text are called for.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
To Take Your Breath Away
18 July 2011
Format:Hardcover
To bean Explorer or even to accompany an expedition to some rarely seen part of the planet is quite likely a dream of most of us. From previous generation books we had Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 - presumed dead after March 24, 1939) take us to those places in a way that we thought impossible to replicate. But here in his book TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: ADVENTURES OF AN EXPEDITION PHOTOGRAPHER Gordon Wiltsie documents his numerous perilous adventures, comments on the difficulties of his expeditions, and best of all, provides us with some of the most magnificent photographs of those parts of the planet we can only imagine.
Wiltsie takes us to Nepal, Chile, Mongolia, Peru, the Arctic as well as the Antarctica, and Patagonia, courtesy of his inordinately magnificent photographs. His ability to find the right moment when the sun hits ice just so, when the clouds attempt to shroud peaks, the intimate images of Tibetan monks, Hindu pilgrims nearly suspended in air as they cross rocky mountain peaks - all with an extraordinary sense of artful composition that makes his photographs true works of art. His book represents nearly thirty years of accompanying daring explorers and his commentary about these expeditions is illuminating.
But the glory of this book is the sheer beauty of his photographic art infused with his sense of daring - the gift of one who has seen the unseeable and sharing those moments and images with we dreamers. July 11
Wiltsie takes us to Nepal, Chile, Mongolia, Peru, the Arctic as well as the Antarctica, and Patagonia, courtesy of his inordinately magnificent photographs. His ability to find the right moment when the sun hits ice just so, when the clouds attempt to shroud peaks, the intimate images of Tibetan monks, Hindu pilgrims nearly suspended in air as they cross rocky mountain peaks - all with an extraordinary sense of artful composition that makes his photographs true works of art. His book represents nearly thirty years of accompanying daring explorers and his commentary about these expeditions is illuminating.
But the glory of this book is the sheer beauty of his photographic art infused with his sense of daring - the gift of one who has seen the unseeable and sharing those moments and images with we dreamers. July 11
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