I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.