Wasatch Mountain Photography

Travis Atwood — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:25:19 +0000

When I was younger, I used to love looking through the pages of National Geographic Magazine. The photography of far off, exotic lands and stories of adventures to places I’d never heard of were inspiring to me. One day, while I was sitting in the local library, I came across a very memorable article that that was truly amazing. In the February 1998 edition of National Geographic there was an article about a climbing team that was on an expedition in Antarctica attempting to climb some of the unclimbed granite spires in an area know as Queen Maud Land. The expedition was covered by National Geographic photographer Gordon Wiltsie for the February 1998 cover story of the National Geographic. Gordon’s photography was so incredible and the subject matter so beautiful that I decided then and there that I wanted to be a photographer and a climber. I wanted to be able to capture images of beautiful places and show people small parts of the world that would inspire them in the same way that Gordon Wiltsie’s photography had inspired me.

I spent some time this weekend on a mountaineering trip here in the Wasatch Mountains. It’s admittedly not as exotic a local as Queen Maud Land in Antarctica, but the mountain range is still extremely rugged and beautiful. Relatively few people see these mountains from any place other than the floor of the Salt Lake Valley, even though there are over one million people living at their base. Sharing the views from on high with people who never knew something like this existed in their own backyard is rewarding for me and hopefully someday I might inspire people to see the views for themselves.

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Wasatch Mountain Photography