Mountain Heroes

Part of the Face to Face series, which also features 'Ocean Portraits' and 'Polar Portraits'With a foreword by Sir Chris Bonington, commentary by Jack Ives, Bruno Messerli and Stephen Venables, and an afterword by Doug ScottAuthor Dr Huw Lewis-Jones is a historian and Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge and was previously Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, and Curator of Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum.A stunning account of pioneering modern photography and modern portraiture, with new commissions from leading photographers and alpinists alongside historic treasures from the world's finest collections.Dr Huw Lewis-Jones is a historian and editor with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Huw was Curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute and the National Maritime Museum and is now an award-winning author who writes and lectures widely about maritime history, exploration and the visual arts. His books include Arctic, Ocean Portraits, In Search of the South Pole, and Mountain Heroes, which won Adventure Book of the Year at the World ITB Awards in Germany. n 2015 he was awarded the Leif Erikson Exploration History Award by The Exploration Museum in Iceland for his commitment to the history of exploration. Huw is currently Editorial Director of the indie publisher Polarworld.Come face to face with those who have spent their lives at altitude: explorers and pioneering travellers, intrepid ice climbers and extreme skiers, ecologists, photographers and film-makers. The weathered faces of black-and-white portraiture from the world's leading collections are displayed alongside modern photographs by a group of leading adventure photographers such as Glen Denny and Cory Richards, Gordon Wiltsie and Martin Hartley. Among those featured are Sir Edmund Hillary, George Mallory, Reinhold Messner, Tenszing Norgay, Galen Rowell, Edward Whymper, Steph Davis, Maurice Herzog, Leo Holding, Adam Watson and Kit Deslauriers.A visual celebration of those who have risen to the challenge of the highest mountains on earth.In its approach and impressive execution, there's never been a book like this. Highly recommended!