I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

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.

My first thought is always of light.

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.

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

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