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Visit our Library of Published Stories
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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.

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How (and why) we built the Image Database
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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).

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Our Focus
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Our Focus

Most of our favorite work has always been focused into three categories: Natural Beauty, World Cultures and Adventure & Expedition.

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What is AlpenImage?
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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.

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Looking Forward
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Looking Forward

2020 has been a year unlike any we have experienced and it has caused us all to look around and re-evaluate priorities. In these troubling times of rapid change there is a new urgency for progressive action to save our planet and its peoples.

For us, this has meant looking back at our own contributions towards those ends and the types of impact we want to have in the future.

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