One photo was taken from the air during an access flight into the mountains and it captured the essence of the mountain that I wasn’t able to reproduce from the ground. I am not against helicopter flights, and many great photographs have been taken out the door of helicopters and ski planes, but I wanted to capture original images from rarely seen angles, in difficult to get to places, at times of the day when helicopters cannot fly. I also wanted to inspire ground up ascents wherever possible and to give the reader the inspiration to do the same.