Books and Magazine Covers

The American Society of Magazine Editors has spoken: At last night’s National Magazine Awards, Time took home top honors, with titles like Inc., New York, O, The New York Times Magazine, and Saveur winning in their categories. But while those award…

Bridwell's Brave New World Yosemite Ratings Mountain 31 1974 - SuperTopo's climbing discussion forum is the world's most popular community discussion forum for people who actively climb outdoors.

The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti regularly makes it on to top-ten lists of mountaineering books. A collection of the Italian climber's classic writings on everything from his epic 1955 solo route on the Petit Dru in the French Alps to controversy on the slopes of K2, the year before. Penguin have just republished a translation of the book and the sprightly 80-year-old recently spoke to the Guardian about his life. Bonatti is one of the 20th century's greatest alpinists so, as I've…

Jim Bridwell on the cover of Climbing magazine. Classic. And it just goes to show that you don't need a climbing pic on the cover of a climbing mag to make it work.

Chris Bonington's Everest.

The book that changes climbing photography forever. Rock Climbers in Action in Snowdonia (1966) by John Cleare and Tony Smythe.

Photographers like Galen Rowell are, by and large, an intrepid bunch and perhaps Rowell could be said to be the most intrepid of them all. His achievements include first ascents of challenging mountain peaks around the world including the Andes, Alaska, Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya, Tibet, Nepal, China, Greenland, and many more, and more than 100 first ascents of technical climbs in the Sierra Nevada.

We used to call this magazine 'Scrambler and Wanker'. Love his haircut though.

Bushwalking Around Sydney by Paddy Pallin.

Photographers like Galen Rowell are, by and large, an intrepid bunch and perhaps Rowell could be said to be the most intrepid of them all. His achievements include first ascents of challenging mountain peaks around the world including the Andes, Alaska, Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya, Tibet, Nepal, China, Greenland, and many more, and more than 100 first ascents of technical climbs in the Sierra Nevada.

Galen Rowell's Vision. This was the book that made me rethink how I shot images. The best photographic how-to book ever.

Ray Jardine on Seperate Reality. Yep, using Friends. Great cover, great era.