Exploring the Drought: A Road Trip with Writer Rob Schultheis
A road trip to document the unfolding effects of a record breaking 20-year drought on up to 40 million people who depend on water from the Colorado River. Gordon Wiltsie & writer Rob Schultheis explore the drought in the western United States.
Temperature Tourism - A Vision of the Future?
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,’
Visit our Library of Published Stories
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.
An Unseen Invasion
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.
A Refugee Camp in Bangladesh, 1977
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.
How (and why) we built the Image Database
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).
Introducing Framed Mini-Prints
A curated selection of captivating photography by Gordon Wiltsie. Mini-Prints arrive ready to go, mounted, matted, and framed. Quality pieces of art with superb detail.
Introducing Our Interactive Database
An overview of the new AlpenImage database and the search features it offers.
Announcing the Photography Archive
Introducing our new searchable archive of 25,000+ images spanning Gordon's lifetime body of work.
The Mountains of Fog & Fury
The first mountaineering expedition to explore a storm-battered mountain range in Patagonia, Chile
Sherpa Climbing School
American climbers from Palisade School of Mountaineering participated in the first-ever technical climbing school for Sherpa mountaineers, held in 1980 in the Khumbu Region of Nepal.
Bears Ears National Monument
Photographs of landscapes cut from Bears Ears National monument by President Trump, threatening a sacred Native American homeland and some of America’s most beautiful landscapes.
North Pole and the Arctic Ocean
Two visits to the North Pole, once in 1987 when Gordon flew there by ski plane as a camp manager for renowned British artist Andy Goldsworthy and again in 2001 via a Russian icebreaker that also visited most of the Russian polar archipelagos: New Siberian Islands, Severnaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land.
A Pilgrimage to Shiva’s Cave
Hindu pilgrims on a four-day Himalayan trek across cross two 16,000 - foot passes to a massive cave where the god Shiva is believed to have imparted the secret of immortality to his consort, the mountain goddess Parvati
Lost Inca City, Peru
A National Geographic archaeology team uncovers an ancient Incan townsite and ingenious network of irrigation canals atop a mountain in Peru’s Cordillera Vilcabamba.
Dogsledding across the Arctic Ocean
Explorer Will Steger's International Arctic project crossing the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Canada via the North Pole
What is AlpenImage?
For almost forty years AlpenImage has been a family partnership that has mobilized friends, adventurers and experts in many fields to create expeditions and other unique projects, enabling pictures that have helped to shape world perceptions about exploration, wilderness, diverse cultures and our human role as stewards of a fragile planet.