Beth Rodden on Book of Hate, Yosemite

About the Exhibit VAGABONDS TO ICONSPHOTOGRAPHS OF YOSEMITE’S CLIMBING REVOLUTIONHere on Earth, photography has exposed a seemingly impossible facet of humanexperience: our journey Up! In Yosemite, this journey began in 1934 when climbing pioneers Jules Eichorn, Richard Leonard and Bestor Robinson made the first ever major technical ascent in the hallowed valley on Higher Cathedral Spire – and a camera was there to document it. Four years prior, Eichorn had attended The Sierra Club’s annual Summer Outing, which in 1930 took place in the Kings River region of the Sierra (now Kings Canyon National Park). That July, Eichorn and others made several ascents of the dominant peaks of the region, with their summit of The Hermit documented in a photograph by a young and unknown Ansel Adams. Dabbling in the genre, Ansel would go on to photograph another true first ascent in Yosemite in 1947, when John Salathe and Anton “Ax” Nelson topped out on The Lost Arrow Spire concluding five days on the