Alison Osius visits Jeff Lowe - read TNB: Still Jeff Lowe at Rock and Ice online with exclusive photo gallery
TNB: Still Jeff Lowe by Alison Osius
“If you don’t mind engaging in very slow conversation, I’m OK,” the man in the chair writes. In a world of quick, unpunctuated texting, Jeff Lowe’s words are precise, almost formal, as he sits in a wheelchair, oxygen flowing into his nostrils, his body curved around the notebook that is his fine mind’s satellite. He focuses intently, brow knit, as he pushes a pen with a pincer-like hand.
Jeff Lowe 1st Ascent East Face of Keeler Needle, High Sierra, 1973
It’s a heavenly September afternoon, sunny and breezy. Directly below the second-floor apartment balcony here in Louisville, Colorado, a fountain swooshes. Visible in the grass across the patio are the green-and-brown rows of a community garden. Read More
Jeff Lowe, George Lowe and Michael Kennedy on the iconic Latok 1, 1978 photo by Jim Donini
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Jeff Lowe - 1st winter ascent Black Ice Couloir,West Face of Grand Teton, 1972 photo by George Lowe
