the senator asked. Turnage was ready with an answer: create a new Ansel Adams Wilderness area, which, along with the expanded John Muir Wilderness, would link two of the great High Sierra national ...

An area of 4.7 square miles is completely destroyed. The Adams family's home survives with little damage, because it is located on the city's outskirts. Four-year-old Ansel suffers a broken nose ...

Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness in 1920, when he was just eighteen. His burro, Mistletoe, carried almost a hundred pounds of gear and food; he himself carried a thirty ...