About AlpenImage

Gordon Wiltsie explores temperature tourism in Death Valley California with writer Chris Colin on assignment for Alta magazine. “I grew up close to California’s Death Valley - now America’s largest national park - and have been camping and exploring there since I was old enough to walk. I returned to photograph a different face of the park: the forbidding heat and quirky phenomena of ‘Temperature Tourism,’

For years we have been scanning PDFs from boxes full of Gordon’s published stories and have just now posted some of our favorites on the website. It’s an eclectic library and a unique window on the golden age of modern adventure and exploration. We’ll be adding more as we work through the portfolio and welcome you to browse and enjoy them.

Nationwide it is estimated that there are between 6 and 9 million boars roaming wild - mostly in the south - that cause $2.5 billion in damages each year.

For Bangladesh, which was once called East Pakistan, 2021 marks the 50th Anniversary of its brutal War of Independence from West Pakistan, a tragedy that occurred just a year after the would-be country was also stunned by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, perhaps the deadliest natural disasters in history.

The AlpenImage Database is a tool that we created ourselves to streamline or automate many of the main operations of the business of photography. It compiles all the relevant information about every image in our collection, provides a management dashboard of summary data and helps us manage all the photos (and the tremendous amount of associated data).