Bradford Washburn was Founding Director of Boston's Museum of
Science and served as Director for forty years. Known as a
mountaineer, explorer, cartographer and aerial photographer,
Washburn traveled the world for eight decades, documenting
landscapes from the Grand Canyon to the Alps, from Mount
McKinley to the Matterhorn. Ansel Adams called Washburn a
"roving genius of mind and mountains." This Genius inspired him
to pioneer photographic techniques that captured the most remote
and inaccessible points on earth, under conditions worthy of a
stunt man. Bradford Washburn, After The Storm, Climbers on East
Ridge of the Doldenhorn (11,952') in the Swiss Alps. Taken on
July 24, 1960 out of a Super Cub 150 airplane on ski wheels,
flying out of Belp, near Berne, Switzerland. Bradford Washburn,
The West Buttress, Mount McKinley, Alaska, July 1977. (#7267)
Bradford Washburn, Mt. Huntington's Incredible North Face.
Alaska, April 2, 1978. Bradford Washburn, North Face of Grandes
Jorasses at moonrise, France, 1958. (#40