Happy to be quoted in UK’s “The Guardian” article on the best adventure documentaries in The Banff Mountain Film Festival! The article highlights part of the important backstory of “Dream Mountain” and Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita: “One morning, I was interviewing Pasang on a ridge overlooking Mount Everest and Khumjung village, where she was born,”…

It was amazing to return to the beautiful bayeul (sacred valley) of Samagaun, Nubri Valley, Nepal for a third visit. We served there in Nomads Clinic 2013 and returned post-quake in 2015 to see the re-roofing project supported by Beautiful Resilience: The Enduring Spirit of Upper Gurkha, Nepal. This time we came to climb “Mountain…

We’d talked about it for years, so it was a dream come true for Leica to join us at Santa Fe Workshops. Huge thanks to Leica Camera for sponsoring my class, “The Language of Black and White.” I’m so grateful to Tom A. Smith (fellow SCAD alum!) and Phil Ip (fellow Angeleno!) of the esteemed…

After an intense week of teaching “The Language of Black and White” it’s always a festive night when two Santa Fe Workshops classes converge to celebrate a week immersed in photography and friendship. This year we also celebrated the 54th wedding anniversary of two attendees. What a joy to share the evening with Tom A.…

What a joy to teach “The Language of Black and White” at Santa Fe Workshops! Black and White photography is about everything in between black and white, within and beyond. It is technical and artistic, science-based and sublime. And the greatest thing is sharing the joy with students from all over the country – their…

It was so exciting to share “Gifts of Kangchenjunga” with an audience of about 100 fellow photographers at Santa Fe Workshops summer Instructor series. The talk features over forty new images made on my May 6th summit of Kangchenjunga (8,585m/28,169ft) with mountaineer and dear friend Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita. The work incorporates multiple Leica digital camera…

This was my 10th trip to Nepal in nine years. Having worked in the highest Himalayas for nearly a decade I thought I knew mountains but I had never seen or experienced anything like the Kangchenjunga massif.  At 8,586m/28,169ft Kanchenjunga is Earth’s third tallest mountain and one of the world’s most challenging 8,000m peaks to…

“We saw the movie and it’s a masterpiece,” writes author Chiara Guglielmina. “𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯…goes beyond a mountaineer mother who returns to climb. Instead, it asks new questions by questioning the canons that all of us, white, black, yellow or brown, have grown up with…The movie makes you dream wisely.” So honored to have my images…

We are excited and honored to announce that 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 has been named an official selection for the 2022 Frontier Sapiens Film Festival, taking place at five venues this summer across the United Kingdom and Ireland. The tour kicks off in Poole on August 8, before continuing on to four additional stops through August 13,…

It was stunningly beautiful bluebird morning for climbing Imja Tse, “Island Peak” in the middle of Khumbu Valley. Imja has mixed rock and ice climbing, stands 6,160m/20,210ft and has stunning views of nearby Lhotse, Makalu and Amadablam. Pasang Tenzin Sherpa gave a lead with Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita. We were thrilled for Pasang Doma Sherpa…