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 Andy Selters has a long history of looking beyond the norms and into the heart of the mountain experience. He got his first tastes of mountains on backpack trips during high school. When he went to college in northern California he learned how to climb, on sea cliffs and on the wilderness peaks of the Klamath-Trinity-Shasta region. He quickly progressed, and by the time he completed his biology degree he had researched, mapped, photographed and written his first book (a backpacker’s guide to parts of Sequoia National Park), he had traveled to climb in many ranges, and he was hired as a guide and instructor for the American Alpine Institute, based in the North Cascades. Thus began his multi-dimensional career centered around mountains. Highlights include:
Extensive climbing and guiding:
- Guided peak climbs worldwide, including Denali, the volcanoes of Mexico, the North Cascades, the Sierra, the Canadian Rockies, Kashmir, and trekking peaks in Nepal.
- Pioneering, lightweight expeditions to some of the world’s most dramatic peaks. New routes on Great Trango Tower (Karakoram), Cholatse (Khumbu Himal) and Gigante Grande (Bolivia), and epic attempts on new routes on Shipton Spire, Thalay Sagar and Dorje Lhakpa.
- Other notable technical climbs, from El Capitan and High Sierra to peaks of Canada and Alaska
Extensive cultural explorations:
- Trekking and trek-leading throughout most of Ladakh, aid work for two different organizations there, and a winter spent in a remote village
- A 700-mile journey by mountain bike across Tibet
- Trekking through many regions of Nepal, conversant in Nepali
Extensive experience conceptualizing, researching, and writing
non-fiction books and articles
Ways to the Sky,
A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering
Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue
The Mt. Shasta Book
Numerous insightful articles
Brilliant mountain photography
Creative, superb quality framed prints for your walls
Hundreds of dramatic stock images
Unforgettable slideshows
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| Point of View
Andy has found the curiosity, energy and fortitude to see the mountains from most every angle; as sublime wonderland, as the ground for spectacular recreation, as the home of villagers and herders, as refuges for plants, animals, people and serenity itself, as unforgiving places where things can go disastrously wrong, and even as places of warfare. His photographs and writing ring with a rare depth and breadth, the fruit of genuine, alert experience in dozens of the world’s most remarkable places.
Since the early 1990s Andy has lived in California’s Eastern Sierra, one of America’s most extensive and dramatic mountain regions. Here is the perfect place to inspire and focus his camera and his words on mountains and the way they energize all of our lives. |
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