James Adamson: Ice Adventure

James Adamson: Ice Adventure

Today, advances in transportation, outdoor equipment, and communication technologies make adventure travel one of the fastest growing fields in international tourism. Although adventure travel is not as difficult as it was a century ago, it nonetheless remains strenuous enough to discourage most tourists. Digital cameras are the instruments of choice for many amateur and professional photographers. New technology allows photographers to display, print, store, manipulate, transmit, and archive stunning landscapes and memorable images.Adventure travel, which is associated with all the excitement and exhilaration of outdoor activities like ice climbing, deep-sea diving, snowboarding, backpacking, and bungee jumping, attracts many people from around the world to remote destinations. Long distances over rough terrain and inclement weather does not discourage adventure travelers; quite the opposite in fact, for adventure, not leisure, is the overall motivating factor. One important location in the history of adventure travel is Mount Everest. Situated in the Himalayas on the Nepal side of the Tibet border, Mount Everest has inspired seasoned mountaineers, scientists, explorers, and novice climbers for decades.

Adventure traveler and photographer James Adamson continues one of photography's oldest functions—travel documentation. Adamson was raised in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and studied photojournalism at San Francisco State University. Adamson's images of ice-covered mountain ranges include far-flung destinations in Nepal, Argentina, Peru, and the United States. They are a travelogue of an ardent mountaineer, who combines the determination of an experienced climber with the tenacity of a professional photographer.

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