Galen Rowell Quotes

I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

As a professional climber and photographer, I am asked to shoot in a lot of situations with a lot of different people. Sometimes I'm with the hardest, most seasoned alpinists in the world. Sometimes I'm hanging out with celebrities doing a benefit climb.

I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.

I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.

I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

I love to go hiking. I hike every day for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours in the hills around LA. I go to the gym every day, too.

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing.

I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.

For exercise, I tend to like the outdoors. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. I like to stay fit by being generally active.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of portrait and action pictures, and I was thinking at the time that these are inherently difficult to focus correctly.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

I've climbed in a lot of places, but only once in the U.K., at Stanage Edge in the Peak District.

Expensive gear helps for night shots, but I wouldn't recommend beginners overspend on a camera.