His uncompromising portrayal of these subjects still draws pilgrims to the wilderness that bears his name, deep in the heart of the High Sierra, in hopes of seeing what Ansel Adams saw there.

Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness in 1920, when he was just eighteen. His burro, Mistletoe, carried almost a hundred pounds of gear and food; he himself carried a thirty ...

Ansel Adams's grandfather ... Roosevelt begins his public career as an advocate for wilderness by mobilizing club members to defend Yellowstone park from the threats of mining and railroad ...

Video Above: Ansel Adams stamps unveiled at Yosemite (From May 2024) It is also steeped in the history of human habitation of North America, with archaeological finds dating back at least 7,000 ...

Looming over its western shore is the 12,942-foot Mt. Banner. - photo by DENNIS WYATT Seven miles into the Ansel Adams Wilderness, I got my first view of Thousand Island Lake from the Pacific ...

On a crystal spring afternoon, atop a vertiginous spur on Mt Clark in Yosemite National Park, necessity and invention crossed the mind of Ansel Adams ... cathedral of wilderness. This transcendental ...