Setting the Sun

On this week's edition of Sierra Club Radio, host Orli Cotel speaks with Nicole Rowell Ryan, daughter of climber and photographer Galen Rowell, who died tragically in a 2002 plane crash along with his wife and business partner, Barbara Cushman Rowell. Nicole helped put together a lifetime retrospective of her father's work which has been published by Sierra Club Books. She talks with Cotel about how her father's athleticism helped 'make' some of his best-known shots. In the photo above, for example, Rowell ran a mile with his camera in order to get the perspective necessary to place the temple directly beneath the rainbow. And Rowell's peer Franz Lanting joked that Rowell, a master of natural light and a world-class alpinist, would "set the sun" by descending mountainsides or raise it by climbing higher. The results were spectacular. Don't miss Sierra Club Radio.