This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie ...

When the name Ansel Adams is mentioned in conversation, people think of the romantic and mythic photographs he made ...

In a desperate attempt to contain the fire, firefighters began to dynamite buildings in its path. Unfortunately ... to return to San Francisco again. Ansel Adams, age 4, survived the earthquake ...

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 ...