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View of the summit crags on Mount Whitney (Day 20)

Ansel Adams and the Ansel Adams Wilderness

The John Muir Trail passes through an area known as the Ansel Adams Wilderness (on Days 5, 6 and 7, from the Donohue Pass, where the Trail leaves the Yosemite National Park, to Red Cones south of Reds Meadow, where the JMT enters the John Muir Wilderness).

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) was one of America’s foremost landscape photographers and conservationists. Born in San Francisco at the beginning of the 20th century, Ansel Adams rejected a conventional formal education, but showed an early interest in nature and the Californian wilderness after a boyhood trip with his family to Yosemite in 1916, just two years after John Muir’s death.

Adams’s early inclination was to become a pianist, but his interest in photography deepened, and by the late 1920s he was beginning to be recognised as a landscape photographer of outstanding talent. He is particularly well known for his photographs of the national parks of western US. He used his photographs to further his work on conservation, persuading politicians that the great wilderness areas of the US were worth protecting. He served on the board of the influential Sierra Club, founded by Muir in 1892, for nearly 40 years. Ansel Adams died at the age of 82 in April 1984.